Re: Unable to boot install from CDs?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Sam Varghese <sam@gnubies.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:20:11PM -0400 Gregory B. Prokopsky said:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> My lab got shiny dual core AMD64 machines and I am trying to install Debian
>> port for AMD64 on them with netinst images.
>> 
>> * I tried Sarge CD, it booted, but keyboard was dead (USB).
>> * I tried "snapshot" CD of testing, it didn't want to boot, just like if
>> it wasn't a bootable CD.
>> * I tried the latest "daily build" of CD for testing, same story.
>
> I installed about two months ago using the net-inst image from here:
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/iso-cd/
>
> It worked for me.
>
> Sam

Try pxe booting if you can.

Otherwise you have to stick the harddisk into another system that can
boot.

MfG
        Goswin