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.
Did you try the running the installer with a 2.6 kernel?
It would help if you described the type of hard disks you have.
Cheers,
Mike
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