Re: Installing debian on new hardware.
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 12:31, Ron Jr wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 02:18, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> > Hello list, i was just wondering,
> >
> > I have a new machine PIV 2.8ghz with hyperthreading, and a serial ata
> > disk. What is the best way to launch a debian install on it ? Currently
> > there's a gentoo with a custom kernel on it which i had to install from a
> > custom chroot (since there were problems booting and detecting the
> > disks). But gentoo doesn't 'feel' right and i want to turn the machine in
> > a debian. Are there any recents boot disks,iso, ... available that are
> > able to boot this machine, or how can i create my custom boot disks
> > starting from the current kernel, or is it possible to launch the debian
> > install from a chrooted environment ?
>
> Is it only SATA, or also PATA?
SATA for harddisks
PATA for cd-rom/rw
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