On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: > not sure if this is where i should mention this -- please redirect > me if that is the case :-)
cc'd the boot floppy maintainer. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] would also be a good place. > i've tried the hamm installation disks dated 1998-02-21 and cannot > partition the hard drive i want to install on to. i get a message about > not being able to detect the hard disk. during the boot process, the > scsi card is recognized (tekram), and the hard disk is also recognized > (scsi: 1 host -- an ultra wide ibm 4.3 gig hard disk). I think these disk are fairly experimental. The safer hamm installation may be the bo disk and autoup script. I believe the harddrive detection has been changed and the bugs are still being worked out. The output of "fdisk -l" may be helpful in debuging this problem. > p.s. w/ the disks dated feb 18th, i successfully installed a system > (this was for an ide drive though), but i had a few problems: > > 1) i needed to install some packages (mostly perl-related) to get the > ftp method of dselect to work > > 2) could not make a boot disk -- i tried quite a few different floppies > but i kept getting a 'boot disk creation failure' message. Thanks for the report, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
