I'm also a newbie, and don't know how to solve your problem, but I have a little suggestion: 256 MB RAM -> 2G RAM use amd64 iso instead of i386 to install, only the 1st iso is needed
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Praseen Preman wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one >> of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few >> months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is >> concerned. I have worked on Fedora Linux but it seems Debian is harder >> to tame hence all the more fun. Here are the tech details. >> >> I wrote 3 CD iso images of the Debian 4.0r3 into 3 CDs and tried to >> install on my system, >> the following are the system logs. >> > > As others have written, your chipset/disk i/o hardware is likely not > perfectly understood by the kernel drivers, and a workaround may be a more > recent kernel or installer, a BIOS tweak, and/or some kernel parameters at > boot time. > > What concerns me is you say you burned 3 CD iso's. Do you actually have > the first three CD iso's, or are they actually the DVD iso's? This may be a > dumb question, but since Etch is a three DVD set, I wondered. If you tried > writing DVD-sized iso's to CDs, a lot of things wouldn't fit, obviously. > > Etch (Debian 4.0) is a bit dated, now, you might want to get the testing > distribution, code-named lenny, instead, which is quite usable. It may be > better able to handle your hardware during install. It has a more recent > kernel, and more recent versions of everything, else, too. The whole > shebang requires five DVDs, or sometimes four DVDs and a CD, but you only > need the first DVD to install lenny. > > Mark Allums > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ----------------------------------------- Buddha Debian GNU/Linux MSN/aMSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------
