Re: Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-( - PARTIAL SUCCESS :-)

2004-04-17 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
I'm hoping to keep this note shorter than the last one, but if I provide even a little detail on my troubles (and now partial successes), I fear it will quickly grow longer than the last post. Worst, I don't know if anyone cares, so I'll try and keep it succinct, and I'll post more if others ar

Re: Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-( - PARTIAL SUCCESS :-)

2004-04-17 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
I'm hoping to keep this note shorter than the last one, but if I provide even a little detail on my troubles (and now partial successes), I fear it will quickly grow longer than the last post. Worst, I don't know if anyone cares, so I'll try and keep it succinct, and I'll post more if others ar

Re: Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-(

2004-04-15 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
That's an excellent suggestion, but I don't think it will actually help me. The drives aren't invisible to the disk-based boot loader, it just fails at the initrd stage. The drives are invisible to Lindows Live, but if I turn off the first ide, then the CD will be dead, so I won't be able to us

Re: Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-(

2004-04-15 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
That's an excellent suggestion, but I don't think it will actually help me. The drives aren't invisible to the disk-based boot loader, it just fails at the initrd stage. The drives are invisible to Lindows Live, but if I turn off the first ide, then the CD will be dead, so I won't be able to us

Re: Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-(

2004-04-15 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 20:46, Hadar Pedhazur wrote: > the drives were still invisible, even though the hde and hdg > lines were in dmesg. Just so that you know - you have 2 IDE controllers. The non-promise one is hda,hdb,hdc and hdd - and your promise one hde,hdf,hdg,hdh - primary secondary accord

Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-(

2004-04-15 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
Apologies in advance for the length of this post. Those who don't have a hearty appetite for sharing other's problems should bail out now :-(. A few weeks back, I bugged you all for the first time, while preparing for where I am now. Back then, I was trying to install a debian sid 2.6.4 kernel on

Re: Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-(

2004-04-15 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 20:46, Hadar Pedhazur wrote: > the drives were still invisible, even though the hde and hdg > lines were in dmesg. Just so that you know - you have 2 IDE controllers. The non-promise one is hda,hdb,hdc and hdd - and your promise one hde,hdf,hdg,hdh - primary secondary accord

Unable to install Debian SID on new laptop :-(

2004-04-15 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
Apologies in advance for the length of this post. Those who don't have a hearty appetite for sharing other's problems should bail out now :-(. A few weeks back, I bugged you all for the first time, while preparing for where I am now. Back then, I was trying to install a debian sid 2.6.4 kernel on a