Re: [newbie] install help
when your compiling, do a ./configure --help there should be an option similar to --include-X-libs= pass a : ./configure --include-X-lib=/usr/X11R6/libs then do the typical: make make install mark On Wednesday 05 December 2001 17:00, you wrote: > I am having problem installing a piece of software (SUIF compiler > htp://suif.stanford.edu/suif) > > the error I am geting while running the install script is > > cannot find file X11/Xlib.h > > I already have X win installed I guess .. should I have installed > something else before > > I have mandrake 8.0 > thanks in advance > abhijit ray -- 8:58am up 19:59, 1 user, load average: 1.63, 0.71, 0.42 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install help
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 06:00 am, Abhijit Ray wrote: > I am having problem installing a piece of software (SUIF compiler > htp://suif.stanford.edu/suif) > > the error I am geting while running the install script is > > cannot find file X11/Xlib.h > > I already have X win installed I guess .. should I have installed > something else before XFree86-devel provides Xlib, but at least with XF-4.1, it's in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h Make sure you've got the XFree devel packages installed. 'rpm -qa XFree*' If your SUIF compiler still won't install, you're probly gonna need to give it the correct location for includes. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install help
I am having problem installing a piece of software (SUIF compiler htp://suif.stanford.edu/suif) the error I am geting while running the install script is cannot find file X11/Xlib.h I already have X win installed I guess .. should I have installed something else before I have mandrake 8.0 thanks in advance abhijit ray -- 'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith.And, I'm a locksmith' --Leslie Nielsen, as Lieutenant Frank Drebin, "Police Squad" begin:vcard n:Ray;Abhijit x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Abhijit Ray end:vcard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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>A fresh install takes me less than 45 mins on my AMD k6II 450, with 256mb >ram. I understand that upgrades take hours (never done one) so it appears >that you did an upgrade rather than a clean install. Are you sure you did an >install and not an upgrade, did you format the partitions /root /usr and >others (or the entire disk for that matter) during your install ? >I suggest you back up anything you need and install again, when you get to >partitions to use in your install process make sure you format everything >(except /home if you have it in a separate partition and want to keep it) You can also leave /usr/local alone if it is a separate partition from /usr. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida >-- > >Poogle >Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated >by it) >
[newbie] Install help
I have been running 7.1 for sometime now. It has been great and has worked beautifully. I installed 7.2 on another machine and it has worked great, but when I backed up my files and did a fresh install of 7.2 over 7.1, that's where everything went to hell. It took over three hours per attempt. Everything went fine until it completed it's install and tried to reboot, it locked up both times and i had to boot from a floppy. On my graphical login it created another user named Tina?, both times, it only recognized 64M of memory instead of 160M, even though I indicated the right amount, It performs like I'm running NT Server on a 286 with 32M RAM. When I tried to use kmail to send my message in a bottle, I got the address wrong the first time, and now, no matter what I do to correct it, it won't allow me to send a message to the list. it keeps bringing up the first mistake I made over and over, I had to configure Netscape messenger to even send this. My clock is totally wrong even the day of the week. I can reset it, but it's neccesary every time it boots. Can anybody suggest something short of going back to 7.1 or Redhat? Thanks, No sleep and disgusted
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Kandace Little wrote: I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to install on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted was zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk and then to the CD but I can not get pass the disk they gave me. I tried to make my own disk as the instruction told me but the program that makes the disk did not work, give me an error not sure what just now. I have gave up trying sometime ago but now I find I still would love to have it on my machine. It has to be duel boot because I need to run WIn/98 as well. They say not to boot right to the disk (which I can do), I am not sure why but maybe I should try that. I friend told me that my hard drive was to big but I could not understand that being the problem. Any help would be GREAT! Thanks for you time and effort in the matter for me Regards Stephen L I used System System Commander 2000 to allow for my dual boot on my Compaq 7970; I have a 40 gig HD, all works great, I suggest you read the book complete before running the installation of SC2000. begin:vcard n:Morse;Jeffrey x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Good things come to those who wait :>) x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jeffrey Morse end:vcard
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Kandace Little wrote: >I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. >model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to >install >on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted >was >zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk and >then to >the CD but I can not get pass the disk they gave me. I tried to make my own >disk as the instruction told me but the program that makes the disk did not >work, give me an error not sure what just now. Stephen, On http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/lilo_dual.html there is an extensive article on dual booting. The problem should not be the HD, if your BIOS sees it, then Linux does too. For more tips on Linux: http://nlpagan.net/linux.htm Good luck Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
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Do you know if Compaq is still putting part of the BIOS on the MBR portion of the harddrive? Is your Windows still working? Seve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/22/00, 4:10:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kandace Little) wrote regarding [newbie] Install help: > I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. > model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to > install > on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted > was > zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk and > then to > the CD but I can not get pass the disk they gave me. I tried to make my own > disk as the instruction told me but the program that makes the disk did not > work, give me an error not sure what just now. > I have gave up trying sometime ago but now I find I still would love to have > it on my machine. It has to be duel boot because I need to run WIn/98 as > well. They say not to boot right to the disk (which I can do), I am not sure > why but maybe I should try that. I friend told me that my hard drive was to > big but I could not understand that being the problem. > Any help would be GREAT! > Thanks for you time and effort in the matter for me > Regards > Stephen L
[newbie] Install help
I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to install on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted was zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk and then to the CD but I can not get pass the disk they gave me. I tried to make my own disk as the instruction told me but the program that makes the disk did not work, give me an error not sure what just now. I have gave up trying sometime ago but now I find I still would love to have it on my machine. It has to be duel boot because I need to run WIn/98 as well. They say not to boot right to the disk (which I can do), I am not sure why but maybe I should try that. I friend told me that my hard drive was to big but I could not understand that being the problem. Any help would be GREAT! Thanks for you time and effort in the matter for me Regards Stephen L
Re: [newbie] Install Help
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > Johnok, if I agree that I'll look at it again when KDE 2 comes out > > will you get off the soapbox? (-: But I honestly believe we'll still > > disagree, even then, because we differ even in the orientation of our > > smileys (yours are upside down). (-: > > > My friend, we can agree to disagree. Especially on the "correct" > orientation of the "smileys." :-) I'm an old Fido Sysop, and still > use the Fidonet versions of the emoticons. :-) > John John(-: I don't have a clue as to why I type mine te way I do, but I was a RIME sysop till March 21st, when I finally shut my BBS down. By the way, I agree to disagree (-: Alan
Re: [newbie] Install Help
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Johnok, if I agree that I'll look at it again when KDE 2 comes out > will you get off the soapbox? (-: But I honestly believe we'll still > disagree, even then, because we differ even in the orientation of our > smileys (yours are upside down). (-: > My friend, we can agree to disagree. Especially on the "correct" orientation of the "smileys." :-) I'm an old Fido Sysop, and still use the Fidonet versions of the emoticons. :-) John
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John Aldrich wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > > > Johnthanks, yeah, I might. That is, I might if/when it supports > > html (-: > > > Your loss, my friend. :-) It will allow you to READ HTML OK, but > trying to reply to messages is a real pain and the incoming > word-wrap doesn't always work well, either. :-) Hey, no one said it > was perfect, but, IMNSHO, it's got many of the best features of > Outlook Express w/o the bloated tie-in to a specific browser, as well > as other problems with OE. :-) > John Johnok, if I agree that I'll look at it again when KDE 2 comes out will you get off the soapbox? (-: But I honestly believe we'll still disagree, even then, because we differ even in the orientation of our smileys (yours are upside down). (-: Alan
Re: [newbie] Install Help
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > Johnthanks, yeah, I might. That is, I might if/when it supports > html (-: > Your loss, my friend. :-) It will allow you to READ HTML OK, but trying to reply to messages is a real pain and the incoming word-wrap doesn't always work well, either. :-) Hey, no one said it was perfect, but, IMNSHO, it's got many of the best features of Outlook Express w/o the bloated tie-in to a specific browser, as well as other problems with OE. :-) John
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On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > I'm using KMail 1.0.24 which comes with the KDE 1.1.1 RPMs > > for RedHat 6.0. It doesn't handle "special" stuff. Netscape > > does handle HTML and other "non-standard" stuff OK, but it > > doesn't support (directly, at least) multiple email > > addresses, AFAIK. I've got 3 pop addresses and I need > > something that'll read 'em all. :-) > > John > > JohnI guess that's the one that comes with an icon on the right side > of the panel in KDE? I tried it once a couple of mdk releases back and > hated it. I remove the icon as soon as I install an upgrade. (-: > Anyway that was when I was first starting to use Linux and was trying to > find a mail client that I liked as much as Outlook Express. At the time > I really didn't want to use Netscape, either as a browser or a mail > client, but that's what I ended up using (for both). )-: And actually > I'm quite happy with it now. You're correct though, all you get is one > identity/address, which is part of what I don't like about it. (-: > You might want to take another look at KMail. :-) It's improved a bit since I first started using it in Mandrake 5.3 :-) I'm told that with KDE 2.0 it's going to SMOKE!!! Auto-compress folders and all that good stuff! :-) Enjoy your Netscape! :-) John
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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] > Johnyou 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
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John Aldrich wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > Johnthat's not true, I've been running a dual scsi drive, dual os > > system with win98 and mdk (5.2, 5.3, 6.0 & finally 6.1) since February > > and the only ide device I have is a ls-120 superdisk. I've never used > > anything but the kernal that comes with the distribution (I upgraded 6.0 > > to the 2.2.9-27mdk kernal distributed in the updates, but it was in an > > rpm, no compiling was done). > > > Hmm...Ok. I was told that the pre-packaged kernels don't > have SCSI support built-in and that you have to compile it > in. Oh, well...guess that's what I get for listening to the > "experts." ;-) > > > > BTW, what mail client do you use that has so > > much trouble handling so many different people's > > messages? I had no clue that John Karnos' > message was > > any different than one of yours (I'm using the mail client > > in netscape (the version distributed with mdk 6.1), I > > just read it and replied to it. No problems. (-: > > > > I'm using KMail 1.0.24 which comes with the KDE 1.1.1 RPMs > for RedHat 6.0. It doesn't handle "special" stuff. Netscape > does handle HTML and other "non-standard" stuff OK, but it > doesn't support (directly, at least) multiple email > addresses, AFAIK. I've got 3 pop addresses and I need > something that'll read 'em all. :-) > John JohnI guess that's the one that comes with an icon on the right side of the panel in KDE? I tried it once a couple of mdk releases back and hated it. I remove the icon as soon as I install an upgrade. (-: Anyway that was when I was first starting to use Linux and was trying to find a mail client that I liked as much as Outlook Express. At the time I really didn't want to use Netscape, either as a browser or a mail client, but that's what I ended up using (for both). )-: And actually I'm quite happy with it now. You're correct though, all you get is one identity/address, which is part of what I don't like about it. (-: Alan
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] > Johnyou 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
Re: [newbie] Install Help
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Johnthat's not true, I've been running a dual scsi drive, dual os > system with win98 and mdk (5.2, 5.3, 6.0 & finally 6.1) since February > and the only ide device I have is a ls-120 superdisk. I've never used > anything but the kernal that comes with the distribution (I upgraded 6.0 > to the 2.2.9-27mdk kernal distributed in the updates, but it was in an > rpm, no compiling was done). > Hmm...Ok. I was told that the pre-packaged kernels don't have SCSI support built-in and that you have to compile it in. Oh, well...guess that's what I get for listening to the "experts." ;-) > > BTW, what mail client do you use that has so > much trouble handling so many different people's > messages? I had no clue that John Karnos' > message was > any different than one of yours (I'm using the mail client > in netscape (the version distributed with mdk 6.1), I > just read it and replied to it. No problems. (-: > > I'm using KMail 1.0.24 which comes with the KDE 1.1.1 RPMs for RedHat 6.0. It doesn't handle "special" stuff. Netscape does handle HTML and other "non-standard" stuff OK, but it doesn't support (directly, at least) multiple email addresses, AFAIK. I've got 3 pop addresses and I need something that'll read 'em all. :-) John
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John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you 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?? > > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; name="unnamed" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: > > > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Karnos, John G.vcf" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: > > Please send your messages as "plain text." I'm not sure how > you sent this one, but it didn't want to copy your message > when I hit the "reply" button. :-) > In any event, I think the problem is that it's trying to > modify the device /tmp/sdc instead of /dev/sdc. Are you > using some sort of "drive manager" software or something? > Also, you'll either need an IDE drive or a boot disk unless > you compile the scsi drivers into the kernel yourself. If > you choose to use a small IDE, you can put /boot and / on > the IDE and everything else should go on the SCSI. > John Johnthat's not true, I've been running a dual scsi drive, dual os system with win98 and mdk (5.2, 5.3, 6.0 & finally 6.1) since February and the only ide device I have is a ls-120 superdisk. I've never used anything but the kernal that comes with the distribution (I upgraded 6.0 to the 2.2.9-27mdk kernal distributed in the updates, but it was in an rpm, no compiling was done). BTW, what mail client do you use that has so much trouble handling so many different people's messages? I had no clue that John Karnos' message was any different than one of yours (I'm using the mail client in netscape (the version distributed with mdk 6.1), I just read it and replied to it. No problems. (-: Alan
RE: [newbie] Install Help
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > 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? > If you mean MCA stuff, you're partly correct. There is SOME support for MCA, but Mandrake (6.0) AFAIK, does not support MCA. If you mean PS/2 keyboards and mice, it DOES support them quite well! John
Re: [newbie] Install Help
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you 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?? Content-Type: multipart/alternative; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Karnos, John G.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Please send your messages as "plain text." I'm not sure how you sent this one, but it didn't want to copy your message when I hit the "reply" button. :-) In any event, I think the problem is that it's trying to modify the device /tmp/sdc instead of /dev/sdc. Are you using some sort of "drive manager" software or something? Also, you'll either need an IDE drive or a boot disk unless you compile the scsi drivers into the kernel yourself. If you choose to use a small IDE, you can put /boot and / on the IDE and everything else should go on the SCSI. John
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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] > Johnyou 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
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> "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] > Johnyou 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
[newbie] Install Help
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] Karnos, John G.vcf
