The current installers don't work with SATA but i found this workaround;

http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html?

About the workarounds:

1. What is Legacy ATA mode? I don't think I have it.

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2. I have tried to install with a kernel later than 2.4.27, I have tried Debian sarge rc2, Debian sarge rc4 and SUSE 9.2 with 2.6.8

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3. I only have one harddrive.

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The only thing that have ever worked is Debian woody 4 with kernel 2.4.20, but then it didn't detect my motherboard correctly. Wich made it impossible to install sound drivers, or graphic drivers. It also didn't find my USB ports and my DVD-rom.

I mean the goal is to get full support for AMD ATHLON 64 BIT!

I did try to upgrade the kernel (to version 2.6.10) so that I at least could get USB, but it didn't find my harddrive there eather. Maybe I wasn't MARKING the correct modules, I don't know, but it didn't work with the knowlege I had at the time, and still if I could, how would I be able to get full support for 64 BIT?

ATA is the previous form of drive and there is probably an option in the bios to use ATA or SATA.
I would use an earlier 2.6 kernel. I am using the 2.6.3 version which works well for all my usb and sound stuff as standard. The 64 bit version is still under development but I don't think it will be long before it is released as testing form.

I cannot chose anything else but IDE-controller, or Raid controller.

So you mean that I should intstall Debian again, and the upgrade to a kernel earlier than 2.6.8?

If you can install Woody initially then only do the base install. i.e. do not add anything after the first reboot. Then edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and change all references to woody or stable to sarge/testing. Do apt-get update and the apt-get dist-upgrade. You will now have a Sarge based system. Then do apt-cache search kernel-image-2.6 and select the kernel you want and it will upgrade the kernel for you. Then go ahead installing X and the window manager you want.

The thing is that i can't find an older version than 2.6.8 even I chosse some kernel-image with just the name 2.6 in it, it still install 2.6.8

Can you help me find a ftp source that have older versions?

These are the kernel-images from my search;

apt-cache search kernel-image-2.6
kernel-image-2.6-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on 386.
kernel-image-2.6-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4.
kernel-image-2.6-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on generic x86_64 systems
kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on AMD64 systems
kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on AMD64 SMP systems
kernel-image-2.6-em64t-p4 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on Intel EM64T systems
kernel-image-2.6-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on Intel EM64T SMP systems
kernel-image-2.6-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on AMD K7.
kernel-image-2.6-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on AMD K7 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on generic x86_64 systems
kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD64 systems
kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD64 SMP systems
kernel-image-2.6.8-10-em64t-p4 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel EM64T systems
kernel-image-2.6.8-10-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel EM64T SMP systems
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on 386.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7 SMP.
kernel-tree-2.6.8 - Linux kernel tree for building prepackaged Debian kernel images
kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.3 on AMD K7.

You'll notice there are specific kernels for amd64k8 there. Try the kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on AMD64 systems

What apt sources do you have? (in sources.list)

I also would like to add ftp.kernel.org as a kernel source how do i type that into sources.list? Couse I would like to install kernel version 2.6.11.

This is mine but it was created during the configuration;

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

You cannot use kernel.org in sources.list as it is not a Debian repository. Debian has a special packaging system that uses a file called Packages.gz that lists the contents of packages with all sorts of detail in the parent directory. 2.6.11 is probably still in SID so you would have to edit your sources.list to point to unstable do an update then apt-get the kernel. Restore the sources.list to testing and do another update.

What is SID?

And I have tried to add more soruces with testing and unstable but i can't find the kernel image for 2.6.11!!


And is there a command i can type to see wich version of Debian i have?

SID is unstable, SARGE is testing. If 2.6.11 is not listed yet in unstable then there is no debian package available. You would have to compile a kernel from source from kernel.org. You need to do the compile using conventional methods. You need certain apps ( like mod-init-tools) in Debian to do this so do a Google search on upgrading from a 2.4 to 2.6 kernel. I personally recommend against this in this instance because of your lack of experience.

Hi, I have the same player. It works flawlessly using kernel 2.6.8. It also did on kernel 2.4 if I remember right.

I wrote how I did at the bottom of this page: http://users.skynet.be/six/gpure/tech/linux/debian.html

It should be simple though.