Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-02 Thread Simon Meelich
Yes, I did. I probably should have made a screenshot of the chat window or saved the transcript :-) best regards, simon B.Hoffmann wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:31 -0500, Simon Meelich wrote: I tried to get in contact with HP, but there only comment was:"HP does not recommend upgrad

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-02 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:31 -0500, Simon Meelich wrote: > I tried to get in contact with HP, but there only comment was:"HP does > not recommend upgrading the preinstalled OS" > You did buy your pc with Windows pre-installed I presume? At least they acknowledge that Debian/Linux is an upgrad

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Simon Meelich wrote: Dave, YOU'RE THE MAN! Thanks a lot for the advise with Etch. It worked without any problems, you stopped a three day pain... :-) Very glad to see it worked! When I had to install to an old drive, then transfer to the newer ones, it was really a PITA. Be careful

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Simon Meelich
Dave, YOU'RE THE MAN! Thanks a lot for the advise with Etch. It worked without any problems, you stopped a three day pain... :-) Simon Dave Witbrodt wrote: Simon Meelich wrote: I guess I will give the Etch CD a shot, haven't tried this so far. Thanks for the advise. If I don't find a

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Simon Meelich wrote: I guess I will give the Etch CD a shot, haven't tried this so far. Thanks for the advise. If I don't find a solution, I will go ahead and buy an IDE drive to install Debian to; I just can't believe, that I can't get it to work with SATA and this really bugs me... :-) A

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Simon Meelich
Thanks for the information so far. I know it sounds strange, that I cannot change any settings in my BIOS, unfortunately that is true - if anybody is interested I can prove it with screenshots :-) I already read the very same information in various articles. I tried to unselect all unnecessary

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to work, though. As soon as the

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 08:31:29PM -0500, Simon Meelich wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a > new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an > issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Simon Meelich
Yes, I did, sorry I forgot to mention this. Luis R Finotti wrote: Simon Meelich wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is suppo

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Luis R Finotti
Simon Meelich wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to

Debian Sarge on SATA

2006-04-01 Thread Simon Meelich
Hello, I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to work, though. As soon