On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 03:39:16PM +0200, Peter Sheldrick wrote: > The only difference between your setup and mine that i > can see is that you installed debian on a SATA1 HD and > i'm trying to install it on a SATA2 HD. Are they not > supposed to be completely backwards compatilbe? With > my recent experiences i dont think so. Is there > anything i have to change in bios to make it run? When > i switch the SATA2 controller off the pc hangs at boot > which is strange because i plugged in my disc on the > SATA1 slot so what does he need the SATA2 controller > for? What do you mean when you say the Pre-Boot > Execution Environment option failes? Does the PXE not > start up or does an alteration of an PXE option not > take effect? I'm reluctant to flash the bios - i never > tried it - if it has nothing to do with the problem, > since it is risky, more so because as you say it works > without. > When i try a debian installer with kernel 2.6.8 it > hangs while partitioning. When installing debain from > knoppix with debootstrap: > debootstrap --arch --resolve-deps amd64 sarge /mnt/ > http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/ > it just exits at random stages - once at "I: > Extracting modutils..." sometimes later, once while > trying to chroot. However cheers for the help.
Is your knoppix 64bit? If not you can not debootstrap amd64. You have to be running a 64bit kernel to do that. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
