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

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Wed May 10 10:48:02 UTC 2006


On Wed 10 May, John Winters wrote:
> 

> 
> But...
> 
> 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?
> 
> TIA,
> John
> 
   There should be plenty of information about recent development on the
Debian Installer, this problem is well known and there has been a lot of
work to sort things or provide work-arounds. See the Debian website. You may
need to use a more recent installer version, depending on the actual
hardware.

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Chris Bell

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