[Sderby] Debian

[Mike Hemstock]

On Saturday 17 January 2004 18:54, Ian Spratt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone out there running debian at present?
> > I've just upgraded my pc and rather than reinstall fedora core, thought
>
> I'd try the latest debian cd's (7 in total - taken the best part of all
> day to download). This will sit alongside windows xp - this needed a third
> party driver for the hard disk controller to boot.
>
> > My issue is that debian doesn't find the hard disk (serial ata drive)
>
> and consequently won't install - does anyone have any ideas? I've trawled
> through the debian site but can't find anything specific.
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Roger
>
> Hi Roger
> I use debian on several machines, but none of them are serial ata. do you
> know what version of the kernel the installer is running? i think the
> standard for debian woody (the current stable version) isnt even a 2.4
> series, so wont have serial ata controller support. if you havent already
> tried, try the bf2.4 kernel during the install, which might need to boot
> from a different disk.
>
> if all else fails, you could try the beta version of the new debian
> installer. its available from
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> the problem with this is it needs internet access, and downloads all the
> packages from the internet, rather than from the cds you already have.
>
> HTH
> Ian

SATA support for Linux is still very new.  If your feeling ambitious, try the 
2.6.1 kernel.  If not, go for the lastest 2.4 release, that may be 2.4.23?

Mike.