I have skipped it and still have the problem. I suspect, but won't know
until tonight, that I need to create the root partition (/) on my first
drive ( a 9Gb SCSI drive where I normally boot Windows98 from
(cough...gag...spit...) then put everything else into the 3rd partition of
my 2nd drive which I've already set aside for Linux. I do use the DRUID
app, but the Fdisk error comes up first. The master device on my IDE bus is
a CD-ROM, which would account for the error message, just as you stated.
If you've got any words of wisdom on where I need to put the root partition,
please let me know. I'd love to forego the trial and error part of this
install.
Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. I'm very anxious to get
this up and running. By the way, I'm getting the impression that LINUX
doesn't support PS2 devices. Is that a correct statement?
Thanks again, Alan.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Install Help
> "Karnos, John G" wrote:
>
> Can Linux-Mandrake 6.0 be installed onto SCSI drives? I continually
> get an Fdisk error message "An error occured reading the partition
> table for the block dvice /tmp/sdc. The error was: device not
> configured". I have 6GB of an 18GB drive free and ready to use for
> Linux, IF I can ever get past this hurtle. can anyone out there help
> me??
>
> TIA
> <<<<< >>>>>
> John G. (Jack) Karnos
> (760) 939-8507
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
John....you probably have a removable media scsi device (like a cdrom)
and disk druid can't read it because theres no disk inserted. That's
ok, you don't want to partition it anyway, just tell disk druid (oops,
you said fdisk, why are you using that?) to skip it and you'll be able
to get on with your partitioning. Linux installs fine on scsi disks.
Alan
