My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer
because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b
mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an
iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems
understanding how to get this to work. I currently
have mandriva installed and lots of extra harddrive
space for other distrubutions. I'd like to load etch
and 64studio which is a debian based multimedia
distribution.

I believe I need the hd-media version of the debian
installer, which I can't find in the ia64 installation
manual at
http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ia64/.
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dis...urrent/images/
I only see booting from cd-rom and from tftp
mentioned.

I have gotten grub to find and load initrd.gz and
vmlinuz which I copied to /boot/newinstall on my
hardrive. I took these from a 64studio.iso. But of
course that just brough me back to the point in the
installation where the cd-rom is not recognized, since
these are taken from an install cd.

At least if I could find the right vmlinuz and
initrd.gz to use (the ones for hd-media) I think this
will work.

Thanks for your .

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On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:11:57PM -0500, b smyt wrote:
> My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer
> because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b
> mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an
> iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems
> understanding how to get this to work. I currently
> have mandriva installed and lots of extra harddrive
> space for other distrubutions. I'd like to load etch
> and 64studio which is a debian based multimedia
> distribution.
>
> I believe I need the hd-media version of the debian
> installer, which I can't find in the ia64 installation
> manual at
> http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ia64/.
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dis...urrent/images/

First, you are using the wrong architecture. The P5B is an amd64 board:

- Intel(R) Core2 Extreme / Core2 Duo Ready
- Intel(R) Pentium(R) Extreme / Pentium(R) D / Pentium(R) 4 / Celeron(R)
D Ready

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...78&modelmenu=1

The ia64 architecture is only for Itanium CPUs.

Regards,

-Roberto

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> My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer
> because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b
> mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an
> iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems
> understanding how to get this to work. I currently
> have mandriva installed and lots of extra harddrive
> space for other distrubutions. I'd like to load etch
> and 64studio which is a debian based multimedia
> distribution.

> I believe I need the hd-media version of the debian
> installer, which I can't find in the ia64 installation
> manual at
> http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ia64/.
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dis...urrent/images/
> I only see booting from cd-rom and from tftp
> mentioned.

Have you tried

http://www.goodbye-windows.com/

?

Stefan


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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer
>> because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b
>> mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an
>> iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems
>> understanding how to get this to work. I currently
>> have mandriva installed and lots of extra harddrive
>> space for other distrubutions. I'd like to load etch
>> and 64studio which is a debian based multimedia
>> distribution.
>
>> I believe I need the hd-media version of the debian
>> installer, which I can't find in the ia64 installation
>> manual at
>> http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ia64/.
>> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dis...urrent/images/
>> I only see booting from cd-rom and from tftp
>> mentioned.
>
> Have you tried
>
> http://www.goodbye-windows.com/
>
> ?
>
> Stefan
>
>

That program on that site is a windows .exe that will download the Etch
net-install for your appropriate architecture and then give you the
opportunity to install Etch on the next boot. You don't need a CD.

It works well.

Joe
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"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@connexer.com> wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:11:57PM -0500, b smyt wrote:
> My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer
> because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b
> mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an
> iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems
> understanding how to get this to work. I currently
> have mandriva installed and lots of extra harddrive
> space for other distrubutions. I'd like to load etch
> and 64studio which is a debian based multimedia
> distribution.
>
> I believe I need the hd-media version of the debian
> installer, which I can't find in the ia64 installation
> manual at
> http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ia64/.
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dis...urrent/images/

First, you are using the wrong architecture. The P5B is an amd64 board:

- Intel(R) Core2 Extreme / Core2 Duo Ready
- Intel(R) Pentium(R) Extreme / Pentium(R) D / Pentium(R) 4 / Celeron(R)
D Ready

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...78&modelmenu=1

The ia64 architecture is only for Itanium CPUs.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Thanks for noticing that I had the wrong architecture. I have an Intel E6300 and didn't realize the connection with amd64. With that straightened out, I was able to get etch installed today.

I basically followed the debian manuals, but I am detailing what I did, in case someone else can benefit. The problem with the intel 965 chipset is quiet common and prevents using cd-roms to do the installation of most distributions at this time. With a version of linux already on the computer, the approach of booting an iso image copied to the hard drive, followed by net-install works. Luckly, I was able to install mandriva-2007, from cd-rom, on my new setup, a week ago.

- From http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ , chose "other images" then chose amd64 which goes to http://people.debian.org/~aba/d-i/images/daily/
- Chose hd-media, and downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from inside the /gtk directory, and put them in /boot/newinstall on my Mandriva-2007 system.
- from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/, I went to "netinst CD image" then amd64, and downloaded "debian-testing-amd64-netinstall.iso". I put this into the / directory of the Mandriva-2007 system.
- I added this entry to grub file menu.lst in /boot/grub of mandriva-2007
title debian install
kernel (hd0,0)/newinstall/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=12000000 devfs=mount,dall
initrd (hd0,0)/newinstall/initrd.gz
- when I booted, the installer started, scanned and found the iso file and from there, the net installation was straight forward.

I tried to install the 64studio_11.11.1_i386.an_iso in the same way but this did not work, even though its a debian amd64 derivative. It was mounted but then it looked for the cd-rom.
Thanks,
Bob


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> My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer
> because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b
> mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an
> iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems
> understanding how to get this to work. I currently
> have mandriva installed and lots of extra harddrive
> space for other distrubutions. I'd like to load etch
> and 64studio which is a debian based multimedia
> distribution.

> I believe I need the hd-media version of the debian
> installer, which I can't find in the ia64 installation
> manual at
> http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ia64/.
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dis...urrent/images/
> I only see booting from cd-rom and from tftp
> mentioned.

intel 965 and asus p5b? They are x86_64, aka amd64, NOT ia64 architecture!

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