[Sussex] Debian AMD64 installer with newer kernel?

[Andy Smith]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:11:05PM +0100, Al Bennett wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> 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.

I see you've worked around this now but, for the archives..

Another way I have done this is to use a knoppix or ubuntu live cd
to partition the drives and then cdebootstrap to install the minimal
sarge, plus a custom kernel.

Cheers,
Andy

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