[Sderby] Debian

[Paul Grosse]

Am I correct in thinking that KNOPPIX is Debian? I just lownloaded KNOPPIX
3.3 (took 3 hours on a 600k BB line) and I think the Kernel is 2.4.22. It
might be interesting to try that and see if you can use your serial ATA.
Next ??? (_!_)

Paul Grosse

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hemstock" <hemstock at tiscali.co.uk>
To: "South Derby LUG General Mailing List" <sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Sderby] Debian


> 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.
>
>
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