On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:44:56PM +0800, dan connors wrote: > Hi I bought the debian bible sarge 3.1 > I have a AMD x2 3800 socket 939 CPU > Asus a8n-e socket 939 motherboard > A sata2 hard drive > I try to install linux debian 3.1 from the boot cd > It fails all the time the dvd and cd that came with the book all say Intel > x86+ on the disc > Have I the wrong version of dvds/cds > I am an IT student and we are learning to use it so I went out and bought > this book as I am interested in this sort of operating system > An dit does not want to install any of the files it gets to where it wants > to partition the drive and locks up I have tried this many times to see if I > had stuffed up but it still keeps doing it. > Is it just me or in my opinion it is not compatible with my system. > thanks for your time Hi Dan, welcome to Debian! the sticking point is probably the sata hard drive that is not handled propertly. Its one of the hardware bits that is new in the debian world. There is a way to get it working but you may need to get a more recent version than sarge from the debian.org website --- the testing distribution netinstall probably. But you also maybe able to find the info on google to make the debian-installer detect the sata drive. You may also want to go on irc to irc.debian.org and go to #debian for some more realtime help. cheers, Kev ps. if you have an older computer around that does not have sata, you'd be able to install the OS easier on that. So if you have such a machine, use that untill you get this issue resolved. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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