[H-GEN] newbie install woes

[Robert Kearey]

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Ewan Edwards wrote:

> I can't say anything about the FreeBSD, but I can say that in the last 12 
> months I have tried and failed a number of times to install Debian (3.0) and 
> Redhat (7.3, 8.0) distros on a system that was entirely SCSI or SCSI hdd + 
> IDE cdrom.  

> In each case the error was to do with the installer insisting that it had to 
> have an IDE hdd to install onto.  No attempt to install on to the SCSI hdd at 
> all.  Could not even coax the installer into looking at the SCSI hdd.  :-(

Sounds like it needed a driver disk for the SCSI card. Try as they 
might, it's tricky for the developers to provide every driver in 
existence on a boot image. It's harder still to include drivers that 
haven't been written yet for hardware than wasn't existant when the 
release was cut.

If you encounter a situation like this, check the relevant websites - 
you will normally encounter 'driver disks' (ie, media with appropriate 
module) there, and can install like mad.

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