Debian Install

Anthony aboynes at gmail.com
Fri May 12 10:07:07 MST 2006


You will probably need to install a 2.6 kernel.

apt-cache search kernel-image

Pick the one for your architecture and install it.

Anthony

On 5/12/06, Ben Coffman <ben_coffman at hotmail.com> wrote:
> do you think the Kernal could be the problem?  I'm not sure since it works
> with Red hat 7.3 which uses the 2.4 kernal and it recongnizes all 300 gigs.
>
> Worth giving a shot.  How do I get it to use the 2.6 Kernal upon install?
>
>
> thanks for the help
> Ben
>
>
>
>
> By default, Debian Sarge uses a 2.4 kernel, but if you pass at boot time
> this option:
>
> boot: linux26
>
> it will boot a 2.6 kernel, which supports more modern hardware.
>
> -Scott
>
> Ben Coffman wrote:
> >I bought a 300gig hard drive and when I try to install the Debian that I
> >downloaded earlier this week from debian.org it only lets me see about half
> >of that 300gig, but if I use redhat 7.3 it lets me see the entire hard
> >drive.
> >
> >Is there something in Debian that I don't know about that only lets me use
> >a limited hard drive size?
> >
> >Ben
> >
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