[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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