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Installing Debian (Sarge) on an Asus

P5AD2-E Premium

Table of Contents

Introduction ...............................................................................................................1

Pre-Requisites ............................................................................................................ 1

IDE RAID Module ..............................................................................................................1

Gigabit Ethernet Module ......................................................................................................2

Driver Disc ........................................................................................................................2

Debian (Sarge) Installation ............................................................................................ 2

References .................................................................................................................4

Introduction

Allthough the Mainboard Asus P5AD2-E Premium is rated as "compatible" at Linux Compatible

[http://www.linuxcompatible.org] several users have huge problems installing Debian (Sarge) on their

hardware. The difficulties are encountered during the installation of the gigabit ethernet driver for the

chip "Marvell Yukon/SysKonnect SK-98xx" and the IDE RAID controller "ITE8212". This paper is

written to resume the wide spread documentation for solving installation problems with these control-

lers.

The following method requires an already running Debian (Sarge) system on a different computer. First

a CD containing the Debian disc 1 has to be burned. This will not be discussed here. Second a driver

disc with the needed module for the ITE 8212 has to be created. In the third step the target computer

with the Asus P5AD2-E Premium has to be booted with the Debian disc 1 and the module on the driver

disc has to be loaded. After that the installation can be continued as usual excepting the configuration of

the network interface. The module for the gigabit ethernet card will be build later on the running system.

These steps will be discussed in detail in the following chapters.

Pre-Requisites

The Sarge installation CD uses the kernel version 2.6.8-2-368 so all modules we need to load have to be

compiled with the same options like the kernel has been. Debian provides a easy mechanism for solving

this problem. The package kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386 contains all headers and configurations which has

been used for the compilation of the Debian kernel. You have to install this package and the kernel

source code on an already running computer with the following command:

apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386

IDE RAID Module

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Page 1 - P5AD2-E Premium

Page 2 - Debian (Sarge) Installation

CompilationGigabit Ethernet ModuleDownloadinstall-8_23.tar.bz2[http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/zip/linux/install-8_23.tar.bz2] mkd

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8. Now it's time to load the modules for the IDE RAID controller and the gigabit ethernet. PushAlt+F2 and confirm by pressing enter to open a con

Page 4 - References

mkinitrd -k -r /dev/sda1 \-o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386.iteraidSo the new initrd image is /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386.iteraid. Please considerchoos