Re: Troubles installing Debian on an ASUS notebook
I've experienced problems with a couple of devices which freeze on the default linux2.4 boot on the net install cd. Have you tried entering 'linux26' at the boot: prompt?
Simon
Mike wrote ..
> Sound's like a media problem to me. I'd try checking the md5 sums on the
> disk (you have to burn disk-at-once), preferably on the laptop. I'm not
> sure if debian install comes with a checking. You could also try booting
> from a usb jump drive, not sure what options are available. I know my
> dell
> laptop has a very very picky dvd drive, especially for cdroms. Though
> I
> expect your Asus to be much better than my dell :-)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> To: "Emmanuel Guiton" <emmanuel.guiton@neuf.fr>
> Cc: <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Troubles installing Debian on an ASUS notebook
>
>
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Emmanuel Guiton wrote:
> >> For 2 days, I've been trying to install in vain Debian on my ASUS A6QK30
> >> (AMD Turion 64 processor).
> >> Is there anyone who has successfully done a 64 bit installation on that
> >> kind of notebooks?
> >>
> >> I tried these methods:
> >> - installing from the sarge netinst CD: it kind of freezes right after
> >> the country selection
> >> - installing from the sarge CDs: same problem
> >> - installing from the etch netinst CD: I got the following error:
> >> ISOLINUX 2.04 2003-04-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
> >> Could not find kernel image: linux
> >> boot: _
> >>
> >> md5 checksums of the downloads were alright.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a clue on how should I proceed?
> >
> > What chipset, video, etc does that machine use?
> >
> > Does the i386 sarge installer work on it?
> >
> > Len Sorensen
> >
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