A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western digital hard > drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, my hard drive is not found.
Ok. Do you happen to know what hard drive you have? I would not be surprised if your problem is because the Debian boot floppy is based on an ancient kernel. Have you tried a boot floppy from a more recently released distribution (like RedHat or SuSE)? Also a tip: this is how IDE drives are mapped under Linux: /dev/hda - the master drive on the primary controller /dev/hdb - the slave drive on the primary controller /dev/hdc - the master drive on the secondary controller /dev/hdd - the slave drive on the secondary controller If you see /dev/hdax (where x is a number), then that means "partition x on drive /dev/hda". On most PCs today, /dev/hda is the hard drive, and either /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd is the CD drive. > I see in the install documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are not > supported. I don't think that's your problem. IDE-SCSI is used with IDE CD writers so that they'll work properly under Linux, and little else. This is from the documentation for the IDE-SCSI driver: This will provide SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices, and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native ATAPI driver. This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native driver has been written (for example, an ATAPI PD-CD or CDR drive); you can then use this emulation together with an appropriate SCSI device driver. In order to do this, say Y here and to "SCSI support" and "SCSI generic support", below. Note that this option does NOT allow you to attach SCSI devices to a box that doesn't have a SCSI host adapter installed. If both this SCSI emulation and native ATAPI support are compiled into the kernel, the native support will be used. > How do I know if this is what I have? This is the first time I've > attempted to install an operating system of any kind, so be gentle. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
