[Sussex] Debian AMD64 installer with newer kernel?

Al Bennett al at plasticfish.co.uk
Wed Jul 26 18:13:54 UTC 2006


Thanks Steve, I've downloaded an Etch netinst and it seems to be going fine 
with the network and SATA stuff detected.  This installer's even got a GUI, 
what's the world of Debian coming to?!

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Dobson" <steve at dobson.org>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Cc: "Al Bennett" <al at plasticfish.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Debian AMD64 installer with newer kernel?


> 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 





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