Re: installation

[George Frederick Viamontes <gviamont@nd.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, M Joonas Pihlaja wrote:

> Hi George,
> 
> I had this same problem just a week ago with the same
> motherboard.  You don't specify which Debian release you have,
> but I think Potato doesn't have support for ATA-100 in the
> kernel.  You're on the right track though:
> 
>   i) Put your HD on the normal udma66 bus and then you can
>      install Debian.
>   ii) Get and apply the ATA-100 kernel patches from
>      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick
>      to your kernel sources, compile, and install.
> 
> I haven't personally done ii) yet, so I can't give you more
> specific advice there.  Maybe woody has the new patches, anyone?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joonas Pihlaja
> 
> P.S. Hello to the list from a new Debian-user!
> 
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Thanks Joonas and Greg!  I'll give all this a try and let you know how it
goes.

Regards,
George Viamontes