Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

[michael@etalon.net]

Quoting Court Thomas <court@seanet.com>:

> I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux.  The
> computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system.  The BIOS identifies the system as a
> 64 bit system.  I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck.
>
> My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting
> the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot
> from the disk.  When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk,  the
> installation processing can't find the hard disks.  I know that the computer
> can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9.  I've tried using
> debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but when I
> debootstraping  the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I try
> debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount proc.
The IA-64 shouldn't work on your system. That port is designed for the 
intel Itantium chip. If you want to take adavantage of your 64 bit box, 
try the AMD64 (x86_64) port of Debian.

Did you try the running the installer with a 2.6 kernel?

It would help if you described the type of hard disks you have.

Cheers,
Mike