On Sunday 14 August 2005 9:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Court Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The > > computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system > > as a 64 bit system. I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck. > > > > My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try > > booting the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it > > can't boot from the disk. When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk, > > the installation processing can't find the hard disks. I know that the > > computer can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9. I've > > tried using debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but > > when I debootstraping the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I > > try debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount > > proc. > > The IA-64 shouldn't work on your system. That port is designed for the > intel Itantium chip. If you want to take adavantage of your 64 bit box, > try the AMD64 (x86_64) port of Debian. I ordered a set of Debian 3.1 AMD64 disks. I had no better luck installing from them. Both the AMD64 and i386 disks report that they can find partionable disks. > > Did you try the running the installer with a 2.6 kernel? I tried booting linux26 and expert26 on the i386 distribution. The AMD64 distribution reported that there wasn't a linux26 option (maybe because it only has a 2.6 kernel?). Booting just linux on the AMD64 distribution didn't work either. I tried just about all the options listed from the boot help screen on both distributions, but with no luck. > > It would help if you described the type of hard disks you have. I have serial ATA drives. The boot.msg file (from a SuSE installation) lists the drive that I hope to install Debian on as a HDS725050KLA360 if that's any help. The primary drive is a Western Digital, but it's formatted for a NTFS file system. I'm keeping my Linux physically separate from that other operating system. > > Cheers, > Mike
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