[...] > >>Or he can switch his sata controller to a "legacy ATA mode". > >> Not Sure if it works as I have not any s-ata drives at all. > > > > No, I didn't find anything like that. > > This is in bios, not in the debian-installer.
I thought that you meant the bios, but there seems to be no possibility to switch the sata controller to a "legacy ATA mode". > >>It may be possible to build an image with 2.6 kernel, but then > >>you cant use autopartkit, and you have to partition the drive > >>yourself. I hav vagely looked at providing a schema for > >> partman, but that's just vagely. If someone could point me to > >> the documentation on how to add a custom schema for partman I > >> would be happy. > > > > Is it planned to build an image with 2.6 kernel? I don't worry > > about partitioning the disk myself, but I don't have a clue how > > to build the image. > > I've bveen thinking about it. Offically, it's not planned, but I > might give it a go. That would be very helpful and the only possibility to install skolelinux on this machine? Otherwise I would try to install everything on a different IDE-disk, upgrade the kernel and copy everything using knoppix and dd. Georg P.S.: Is there a debian howto/documentation about modifying the installer?
