Hi, On Sun, 08 Aug, 1999 à 05:35:46PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > I'm not sure whether it's the same model or not. But I used to install potato > on one G7-450 with 12GB HD. On that machine, fdisk on debian can read only > first 8GB. So I end up repartitioning so Debian can live withing the first 8 > GB, the rest of the disk, NT can handle that. > > There is also a post about fdisk on slink can not handle hd > 8Gb a bit > ealier. >
*cfdisk* has troubles with more than 8 Gb but fdisk handles them without problem. > On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 01:37:06AM -0500, Colin McMillen wrote: > > An acquaintance of mine has a new Gateway P3-450 computer with a 12 GB > > hard drive. She wants to use about half that space for Linux, and I > > recommended to her that she get slink, because I use it myself and am > > fairly familiar with it. However, when I tried to install from the slink > > CD's, I got an error about "Could not find a valid disk to install to." > > It seems that slink (and also RedHat 5.2) can't detect her hard drive! > > > > I investigated further (it's not a partitioning problem, BTW.. fips > > worked fine, and i even tried downloading a windows program to make ext2 > > filesystems and rebooting again, with no luck..) I eventually found out > > that in her BIOS, under Primary Master, is listed [None]. I can change > > [None] to [Auto] but that doesn't help. The only device on there at all > > is Secondary master, which is her DVD-ROM drive (which debian can read > > perfectly fine.) > > SCSI harddrive ?? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \) Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur ! (/ | \_|_ Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/