Installing Debian or other Linux Dist on HP xw6400 workstation

[Andri Lucca Hannes]

Hello, 

 

I am trying to get a linux distribution running on a very computer. 

It is a HP xw6400 workstation with a Intel Xeon 2.33Ghz. 

 

I already tried installing a newer version of ubuntu and debian 12 however I did not get it to work. 
The Debian installation works until at some point I get to a message "Detect and mount installation media" but nothing happens.

 

Very new to all this and I would appreciate every help 

 

Thanks

[Needfuldoer]

What do you plan on doing with it? That thing is at least 15 years old...

 

Does it have a RAID controller? If so, does it have any virtual disks set up and presented to the OS?

[LloydLynx]

At that age, the machine might have a 32bit UEFI, even if the CPU is 64bit. See if you can boot using BIOS mode or "Legacy boot".

But that UEFI guess is just a guess. I don't know that machine well. Just wanted to provide a possibility.

[Andri Lucca Hannes]

 

1 hour ago, Needfuldoer said:

What do you plan on doing with it? That thing is at least 15 years old...

 

Does it have a RAID controller? If so, does it have any virtual disks set up and presented to the OS?

 

My plan is to set up a small server for myself so I can host some test projects from university on it. 

It doesn't have a raid controller. 

UPDATE: 

I managed to install debian by just pulling the usb drive out and putting it back in. It somehow tried to find the installer on a CD.

 

However now my Debian doesnt have basic commands like sudo how can that be? And I connected it via Ethernet however if I ping something doesn't seem to work either.

[cretsiah]

1 hour ago, Andri Lucca Hannes said:

 

 

However now my Debian doesnt have basic commands like sudo how can that be? And I connected it via Ethernet however if I ping something doesn't seem to work either.

for this to have happened, you must have added a root account

 

option 1) re-install and leave root user account details blank

 

option 2) log-in to root and add sudo commands