[Gllug] Installing Debian Sarge on a brand new SATA-based machine

[Joel Bernstein]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:40:45AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:59:08AM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> > So far I'm unable to run the Sarge installer because the SATA disc isn't
> > recognised by Sarge's 2.6 kernel.
> > 
> > Anyone know how I could bootstrap Sarge with a newer kernel which might
> > recognise my SATA HD?
> 
> Could you instead try a Debian etch installer?
> 
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

That's exactly what I did for my SATA-based laptop. Works a treat. There
are ISOs available with the etch installer on. 

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

Is probably what the OP needs.

/joel
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