Can't... don't have one. I have 2 SCSI drives, one of which I boot from. I
have a Master CD-ROM with a slave CD-RW on one IDE bus, and a ZIP drive on
the 2nd IDE bus. My machine is capable of doing processing which requires
me to be able to remove the hard drives from the machine and locking them up
when I'm not in the room, so I went the SCSI route becaues I could get
better hard drives. I'm going to try again tonight. It seems I have been
trying to install Linux on my 3rd partion of my 2nd HDD, so I'm going to try
installing things on the 1st partion instead and see if that makes any
difference.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Litman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 2:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Install Help
Linux does support ps/2 just fine. As far as your install goes, why is your
CD-ROM the master on your IDE bus? I would make it the slave if I were you,
but anyways... Your bios is going to want to see the ide drive first, so you
could install your root partition on the first partition of your IDE or SCSI
drive, but make sure lilo gets installed on the ide drive.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Karnos, John G
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 10:55 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Install Help
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
