Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 20:37 -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote:
> I'm trying to install sarge amd64 on AMD Athlon 64 system and making
> zero progress: none of the CDs I burned would boot, so I followed the
> README.sbm, created a floppy with sbm.bin and booted off it. I got the
> boot manager menu, selected the CDROM drive with the Debian image end
> got "IO Error". I know the hardware can run 64 bit Linux, it has Red
> Hat installed, but I prefer Debian. Any suggestions? I'd be most
> grateful,
How sure are you of your burn process? I know for absolute sure that the
amd64 Net Install iso burned by my P4 box with K3B's "Tools->CD->Burn CD
Image" works because that's how Debian got on this machine.
Can you burn with a different machine? Can you burn a CD that will boot
other machines?
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Glenn English
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