On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 01:15, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > Hi, > > How to perform CD installation without any disk attached to on-board IDE > controller? > > THE PROBLEM: > > I have the newest PC hardware with Pentium 4 Northwood, 1024 MB DDR-RAM and > the following combination of IDE-ATAPI devices: > > > On-board IDE Controller > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > primary master /dev/hda Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1612 > secondary master /dev/hdc Plextor CD-RW PX-W40/12A > > > PCI Promise Ultra-133 IDE Controller > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > primary master /dev/hde 60 GB IBM IC35L060 AVVA07-0 > primary slave /dev/hdf 60 GB IBM IC35L060 AVVA07-0 > secondary master /dev/hdg 60 GB IBM IC35L060 AVVA07-0 > > > Today many professionals and casual users own PC hardware with two or more > disks all attached to independent PCI Controller, remaining on-board IDE > Controller only for CD devices. It is very important that BOOT-kernel as > well as regular kernel be built with the same options as from 8.2 > distribution updated kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk. Otherwise, the CD > Installation for that community will be impossible. > > Regards > > Niksa Jurinovic > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
I put this forward on the 10 of September, there was no response from anyone. I was using a similar configuration. /dev/hda 80GB, /dev/hdc CDROM, /dev/hde 80GB and /dev/hdg 80GB. I'd done an NFS update and install and found that the install kernel had inversed the controllers. The operations been carried out on different discs, when the machine was rebooted the disc configuration returned to normal and the old installation was on disc /dev/hda. This is a show stopper. As Niksa said above this type of configuration is now quite common, the price difference between MBs with and without Raid controllers is such that it is often worth fitting the with Raid MB just in case you may need the capability in the future. -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement
