Hi! I'm trying to install debian 3.0 (woody) from CD to my Athlon PC. The installation program fails to find my hard drive (which other (commercial) distributions have located variously at /dev/hdg and /dev/hde). It merely invites me to supply a Hard disk driver on a floppy disk.
The problem seems to be that my (sole) hard drive is _not_ on the primary IDE controller. It is on a secondary controller because this latter works at ATA-100 speed. The hard drive is in working order, and linux kernels can be successfully booted from it. My motherboard is an Epox EP-8K7A (or maybe an Epox EP-8K7A+ ??). Presumably, I can give the installation kernel some parameter(s) which will tell it to look at the third IDE controller to find a disk to install onto. Presumably, also, this is described in a fine manual somewhere I haven't yet been able to find. Would somebody please point me towards the appropriate documentation, so that I can get my system installed. Of course, if anybody is generous enough just to tell me what the pertinent parameters are, that would be most welcome, too. :-) Many thanks in anticipation. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
