Hi, Bought a gateway laptop. Can't get Sarge to install (I have a 14 CD set.)
I really am not sure how to explain the problem, so if you could bear with me, I will try to explain what I tried to do. After wrestling with Win XP trying to dominate my disk, I managed to create logical partitions for root, /home, and a swap partition (min partition on this machine is 8mb.) The install CD boots fine, and says it can't detect ethernet, but it asks me to specify a driver, and the t3 broadcom driver loads. It then loads grub, and loads a base system. Then it says to remove the disk, and reboot. I begin getting messages for the reboot, and it stops when it says it can't load hw_random (I don't know what that is.) I retried with the 2.6 kernal (386) and then it stops with an error on the i810 module. Now, I know there is a way, because I can pop a knoppix in and it will come up, so I want to know.... Should I have used a primary partition? Where can I manually tell the cd set what drivers to load, and any suggestions here? Should I try with the 2.6 686 kernal (or the 2.4 686 kernal)? Or would it be better to try to install knoppix to a hard disk, and somehow get apt-get to scan the 14 disk set? I tried googling for "install sarge gateway m325x" and "install sarge 915" (it has a 915gm chipset.) and nothing seems to come up. Looks like I must be the first guy in the world trying to set this up. ;-) Anyhow, where should I go, what is the best way of getting debian into this system. (btw, I have woody on CD, should I try that?!?!) yours, --- Scotty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
