Installing Debian on Dell M1210

Base installation

Booting debian netinst from USB drive

Debian Installer Etch beta 3 release

Debian installer CD has some issues with the SATA and CD drivers that prevent installation to access to CD drive, I found some tips to solve that problem but they did't work for me. I installed it from my 256 MB USB drive.

wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/\
main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
gzip -dc boot.img.gz >/dev/sdX

Enable USB drive boot from BIOS setup, and then Install Debian base system as usual.

Installing from CD

Write here your solution SATA issue....

Configuration

Installing Core Duo kernel

apt-get install linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp
reboot

References

• How-To: Setup Debian Linux Desktop with Full Multimedia Support and Faster Processing