Re: installation

2000-09-11 Thread George Frederick Viamontes
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, M Joonas Pihlaja wrote: > Hi George, > > I had this same problem just a week ago with the same > motherboard. You don't specify which Debian release you have, > but I think Potato doesn't have support for ATA-100 in the > kernel. You're on the right track though: > > i)

installation

2000-09-11 Thread George Frederick Viamontes
Hi, I got a new motherboard (Asus A7V) that has the ultra-ata support on the motherboard. I am able to get to the installation screen for debian, but it does not see that I have a hard drive. Is there a boot argument I need to pass so that debian will recognize ultra-ata drives? Or do I need to

problems installing

2000-08-27 Thread George Frederick Viamontes
I'm trying to install debian for the first time. I've attempted booting up with the rescue disk and a debian cd, but both times the startup sequence locks up at the same point. I get a line that says: NCR53c406a: no available ports found That's the point at which the startup crashes. Someone