[Sussex] Debian AMD64 installer with newer kernel?

[Steven Dobson]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 12:11 +0100, Al Bennett wrote:
> I'm trying to install 64bit Debian Sarge onto a new AMD box I've built. 
> Problem is everything's built onto the nVidia chipset motherboard and is all 
> a bit too new.  Specifically the SATA and network controllers aren't picked 
> up by the stock AMD64 netinst which is a bit of a problem when the two 
> things you want to do are download stuff off a network and put it onto a 
> hard disk...
> 
> I think my hardware is supported in kernel 2.6.15+, there seem to be some 
> unofficial i386 ISOs with newer kernels around but I can't find an AMD64 one 
> with a recent kernel.  Does anyone know of one?  Or am I barking up the 
> wrong tree entirely?
> 
> I could throw an ATA disk and NE2K compatible card in for the install and 
> then copy the partitions over but it seems awkward.

Try installing etch or sid.  These come with much newer kernels I think.
I'm running sid without a problem, but my motherboard wasn't new when I
bought it.  Best of luck.

> See you tomorrow, for my last Moot before I move north of the border!

Sad to see you go.

Se ya tomorrow
Steve