[H-GEN] newbie install woes
Harry Phillips
harry at tux.com.au
Tue May 13 06:38:13 EDT 2003
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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. :-(
>
What distro were you trying. I know at one point the Mandrake install
asks if you have any SCSI HDD's.
I have never had to answer yes but you might want to try it.
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Regards,
Harry Phillips
--- Failure is not an option,
it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
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