Are you really quoting the EXACT message you get? The phrasing "There is no
HDD on your computer" doesn't sound familiar to me, and if the message isn't
exactly what you are seeing, it is difficult to interpret, inviting
guesswork. For example, might you really be seeing a message saying that you
have no free disk space on which to install Linux? (I'm grasping at straws
here, admittedly, but otherwise this all seems so odd, especially when you
get the same response from 3 different installers, *after* having
successfully fdisk'ed the drive with some installer.)
At 07:32 PM 11/13/99 +0200, Cristian Carnutu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have an old i386DX and I want to install Linux on it.
>Linux does not see the hard-disk Seagate ST 3630A of 630M.
>I am using this computer on MSDOS.
>ST 3630A is drive C:. On the same cable, as slave, I have the CD.
>The jumpers are configurated at HDD as master with slave, at the CD as
>slave.
>Everything works fine in MSDOS except DOS can see only 500M.
>The BIOS Setup detects exactly the number of heads and cilinders written
>on the HDD. The BIOS is Award 1992.
>The partitions are 300M for DOS and 300M ext2 and 30M swap (I used a
>Linux fdisk). I think it was fdisk from a Debian distribution.Then I
>gave up Debian because I had only the base and it was too much to
>download X and applications.
>
>When I tried to install a RedHat 5.2, the boot(install) floppy worked
>and the kernel began to work. Among the messages it was one saying that
>a HDD of 630M was detected.
>In the second stage install(started from the CD) after I choosed the
>language, I got the message "There is no HDD on your computer" and the
>install stopped.
>I tried also Slackware and it was the same thing. RedHat 6.0, the same.
>I tried also the Debian (Ihave the boot, root and the base on the
>HDD).Neither Debian see the HDD.
>If MSDOS works, what more needs Linux to see the HDD?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Cristian
>
>
>
>
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