Great resources, Greg! Thanks! ...Murray On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 23:24, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 21:25, Murray J. Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've tried to install both Woody 3.0r1 & Sarge (2003-07-27) from an > > 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. > > > > 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). > > > > Suggestions anyone? Any help will be appreciated. > > Yes: > Since the hardware is nice and powerful (err newer) You might have some > great success using either of these two processes: > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall > > Or reference this post I made to this list a while ago: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg01080.html > > I use these processes to get Debian On VERY new hardware.
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