I've had some trouble trying to do a hard disk install. I've an adaptec 7880
on-board controller connecting to an 18 GB hd partitioned in half (more or
less) 1-1023 /dev/sdb1
1024-> /dev/sdb2.
The hard drive is: WDE18300 ULTRA2.
SCSI adapter is: Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter
MB is: ALR 2XL
Anyway, sdb1 has the image and all goes well until it hits the partition setup
and selection. Here's the error:
An error orccured while getting the geometry of block device /tmp/sdb:
Device not configured at /usr/bin/perl-install/fsedit.pm line 43.
An install from cdrom seems to get past this problem, but it fails to report
the correct partition info for both /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc (18 GB and 9 GB )
drives. The visual for the partition space is all white. It does see /dev/sda
though.
I've also had problems with creating a boot image. The standard install fails
to see my floppy disk drive and fails to write to the boot partition and the
master boot record. I boot from an ide /dev/hda (WDC AC36400L translated to
784/255/63).
Thanks for any help or suggestions,
Mike C
