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Because the DVD-ROM drive supplied with the SRX87 is Firewire, and is not supported by the standard Debian boot images, you'll need to use network booting (using PXE) to get it going. This page has some instructions for installing Debian in this manner.

I've expanded on those instructions here.

• Installing Debian using Network booting
• Upgrading to a 2.4 kernel and ext3
• Installing XFree86
• Miscellaneous
• Compiling a new kernel
• FireWire DVD-ROM drive
• ACPI patches
• Wireless Networking
• Connecting my iPod
• Getting sound working
• Installing KDE3?
• Soft Modem
• USB

Other Resources

• http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/~jhajagos/linux/SRX87/
• http://www.alphageeksinc.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?VaioSrX77
• Sony Programmable I/O Control Driver

Things I've found but have yet to try

• Soft Modem
• Linux on the PCG-FX240, particularly SpeedStep
• More SpeedStep stuff
• acpi_howto.txt