Thanks, Bob! That's exactly what I needed. On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 22:14, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Murray J. Brown wrote: > I've tried to install both Woody 3.0r1 & Sarge (2003-07-27) from an > > It is not clear to me which kernel you are installing by this > description. For the woody install which kernel did you select? If > you just hit 'enter' then you got the 2.2 kernel. If you said bf24 > then you got the 2.4 kernel. I have seen the 2.2 kernel hang when the > 2.4 kernel would install properly. Geez! <sheepish grin> I had forgotten that there were other pre-built kernels to select from. bf24 wasn't available on the Sarge distro I have but it worked just fine with Woody, which otherwise defaults to 2.2.18. > > > ATAPI CDROM (40x/AKU) onto a PC with a new Intel P4C800 Deluxe > > motherboard, a 200GB WD Serial ATA drive and a 80GB (WD800JB-00ETA0) > > drive, but the install process just hangs while probing (or simply > > loading the ide-mod-probe kernel module) for IDE controllers. At first, > > I thought it might be the S-ATA support, so I disconnected that drive > > but the probing still consistently fails at the 33.3% mark while trying > > to detect the remaining IDE drives, even after trying various > > permutations of BIOS settings. > > Disconnecting the drive won't disable the controller. Possibly > disabling the controller in the BIOS would get past this problem. Did both. I can get past this, thanks to the solution above, but I now get copious "unexpected interrupt" messages. Hopefully, they'll disappear once I build a custom kernel. > > > Redhat 9 installs cleanly so I know the hardware works. However, I'd > > rather use Debian for consistency across all my systems (now that I've > > eradicated Windoze). > > Obviously most of us on this list would agree with you. :-) > > > Suggestions anyone? Any help will be appreciated. > > Another suggested doing installing KNOPPIX on the hard drive. I > really like KNOPPIX as a good use of technology. But I have tested > installing older versions to a hard drive and then trying to upgrade > them to newer versions of software. It can be a can of worms at that > time. I can't recommend it unless you are already an expert. As the > saying goes if you have to ask then you are not one. Note that this > is not something that Klaus Knopper tried to create when he created > KNOPPIX. He created the image for himself and released it to others > because it is really sweet. But getting an image fully up to date can > be tricky. I'll have to look more closely at this just in case some similar situation arises sometime in the future. I was hoping for a simpler solution to try first -- and got it. Thanks to both you and Roberto Sanchez for suggesting this approach; > Instead let me suggest something else entire. This is also a little > complicated. So don't feel obgligated if this does not work out. But > I would use knoppix to boot a system off of the cdrom and then use > rsync to copy an existing system which is up to date and has the > latest kernel onto your hard drive. I suggest this since it sounds > like you have several machines at your disposal. > > Partition the drive, run mkswap on the swap partition, run mkfs on the > filesystem, copy the system onto the drive, customize the > /etc/modules, /etc/hostname, /etc/mailname, /etc/fstab, etc., run lilo > (or grub) and then boot the system. I find this an easy way to create > new systems by cloning other ones. I can furnish a complete list of > files to customize if you need one but I think you get the idea. The > raw copy of the system onto a new machine takes about six minutes on > my machines, usually much faster than installing the data as > packages. But then you spend another 15 minutes editing files to > change the system over to its new personality. Now this is what I had expected I may need to do but, as above, I was hoping for something more trivial to implement. ;-) > That assumes that your only real problem is that you need a newer > kernel than what exists on your installation media. If you need > something else than this won't work either. Yes, in light of the fact that Redhat 9 installed just fine, this is what Occam's razor suggested to me, too. :-) > Bob Thanks again! ...Murray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
