Previosly i'm using debian v 3.1 r0a and currently my motherboard go crazy. Because there is no option, i'm upgrade to latest motherboard PCI Express. I try to reinstall v3.1r0a, it's just hang. I decided to download the latest version 3.1 r2, still same it's hang during installation. I really do no what to do now. Plz help..........

I would recommend that you install Etch instead. Your new mother board probably has hardware that didn't exist whe Sarge became Stable.

I had similar problems when trying to install sarge/stable on my new pc. It failed to find my sata drive. I'd suggest you download testing/etch netinstall beta3 and install etch instead of sarge. You will have better hardware support with etch as well. Do let us know how things went. I think a thread should have the end of a problem.

Ok thx a lot. I try.

Yes, Etch is the way to go:-) I just installed Etch beta 3 last week and am very impressed with the fine-tuning that the good people at Debian have done. I've run sarge and Etch beta 2 as well:-)

Yo guys the base program is install but after booting, it's can't my graphic card.
I/m using MSI NX7600 GS. Normally the old version debian it will ask me what graphic card i using but this etch version never ask about that. So what should i do??????
Thx for ur help guys......

Sorry I miss something It's never recognize my graphic card

You did install the desktop-environment when you setup Debian right ? if so just reconfigure the xserver and choose the driver..

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

choose nv as the driver for the video card.

If you somehow missed choosing desktop environment during install, you can run base-config use the SPACEBAR to choose Desktop environment and the system will then install X and run you though the configuration section..

This is what the screen looks like where you choose desktop environment.
http://www.linuxcdmall.com/debian-3....nshots-34.html

I don't think base-config is available any more on Etch or Sid. Just ...
# aptitude install xorg gnome gdm

That'll get it

You could try to manually write your xorgconfig file. That is drop to a terminal prompt, Ctrl+Alt+F3.

Then run xorgconfig which is a text based program that'll ask you a series of questions about your keyboard, mouse, graphics card.
Note: if your card isn't on the list you can always use the generic vesa driver. You run xorgconfig by issuing this command at the root prompt #xorgconfig

When you're finished, save it, then shutdown your computer: shutdown -h now

reboot

If you mess up your xorgconfig file you can always run xorgconfig again and over-write your mistakes.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to install Debian on my main computer however my computer connects to the router using wifi, my card is a PCI athos based, and the driver seems to be the madwifi one, So I need to install the whole version from CD...
Windows is currently installed on my main sata hard disk and I have installed Linux on one of my IDE discs.
I said yes install grub but I guess it did not see my sata disc so it installed windows on the boot sector of the wrong disc and if I change the boot sequence it will not show windows in the main menu...

What should I do? would the etch net install find my wifi card? would install the beta etch net install be the solution?

Thanks

No it won't. It will handle your SATA drive with no problem, tho. You will need to get a wired hookup for the net installation.

thanks, here's my news: I've downloaded the whole etch cd not just the net install ...
It recognises my SCSI hard disk and all install's fine, it asks if I want grub, I say yes and then it ejects the cd and asks to rebook, I say ok but I do not see grub and windows starts up ...

I guess that grub did not manage to write the boot sector or it put it in the wrong place ...
Here is my HD config :

1 SATA 320 Gb disk devided into 2 ntfs partitions, 1st with windows 2nd for storage (planning to convert it to fat32 later on so linux can write on it
1 IDE primary hard disk with 1st partition NTFS and 1 SWAP partition + 1 EXT3 partition for linux
1 IDE secondary hard disk with 1 partition NTFS

SO if it wrote to the wrong place I should just have to change the boot disc to IDE 1 and hope that it recognised windows, if not then I suppose it failed to write the SATA disc ...

Would it be possible to use window's boot system and manually add a boot to drive 1 (I think that SATA is recognised as drive 0), if so how would I do this ?

Thanks again !

there's an app(for win) called bootpart (google it and "feel lucky") that will let you use ntldr to hand off the boot to another loader, but it will require that you have a boot loader installed to the other drive.. you can also use the dd command to pull the first 512kb off a partition (where the bootloader is) and write it to a file(this is all bootpart does btw), but I've never done it that way so I can't comment on how it's done. there's info out there though.

so yes, technically, you can use windows' boot loader (ntldr) to boot linux, but in reality it can only boot another boot loader. here's hoping that makes any sense.

Thanks, I guess I am going to reinstall linux again and see if maybe there was a grub option I missed, I use linux26 at the install prompt should I use expert26 to get the grub options?