Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> 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
>
> "Karnos, John G" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> <<<<< >>>>>
>> John G. (Jack) Karnos
>> (760) 939-8507
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
John....I don't know how much wisdom I have, but I have sucessfully
installed several Linux distributions on my dual scsi drive system.
Basically I have scsi 0 dedicated to win98 and scsi 1 dedicated to
linux. I now use Boot Magic to control the multiple booting, but
originally I used lilo and you can too. Scsi 0 is identified by linux
as sda and scsi 1 as sdb. When referring to the partitions of the
drives sda1 is your windows drive c: (if you are using a multiple
partitions for windows there will be more).
The only location issue for the linux partitions is that your /boot
partition needs to be totally located within the first 1024 cylinders of
whatever drive that it is on, sda or sdb. I make my /boot partition
16-24 megs in size. Minimally you'll also need a swap partition 32-128
megs in size (depending on how much memory your system has and what
installation scenario you're following). Your / partition (the slash
identifies the root partition) can take up the rest of your available
drive space (or you can further divide up that space into / and other
partitions, again depending upon the installation scenario you are
following).
When it comes time in the installation to write lilo to disk (right
after you create your floppy boot disk, a very important item), you need
to tell it to install in the mbr of sda (lilo then becomes the boot
loader that controls your ability to boot the windows system or the
linux system). If you ever need to reinstall windows, the process will
overwrite lilo with the windows boot loader and you will need to use
your floppy boot disk to boot Linux and restore lilo to the mbr of sda.
Alan
