Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
Okay, I found out that the latest 2.3 kernels have preliminary ATA/66 support, and I'm willing to give it a shot. Now I'd like someone to help me make my own custom bootdisk... should I just download the source, compile the kernel locally, and copy the image over to a standard Debian slink bootdisk? And, if so, how do do I make the new kernel NOT install itself on my hard drive? (I will copy /boot and vmlinuz first, of course, but i'd like it if i could configure it to install straght to the bootdisk, of course...) Any tips from anyone? Colin McMillen Alec Smith wrote: My guess is that she's got one of the Promise Ultra ATA/66 controllers which the kernel (2.0.36) on the boot disks has no clue about. Currently Ultra ATA/66 support is under development, so I'd expect it very soon in 2.2/2.3 kernel versions. As a work-around, you may try connecting her HD to the motherboard EIDE controller, then enabling the drive in the BIOS. Be sure to use a standard IDE cable as the Ultra ATA/66 wire is a different design. It is my understanding that you can plug an ATA/66 drive into an ATA/33 socket (motherboard) with no side effects other than the drive acting a little slower. Alec -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 2 hours, 0 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org)
Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
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. _|_/
New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
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.) Any ideas on what I can/should do to get the Debian install program to recognize her hard drive and start installation? Your help is much appreciated thanks! Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 5 hours, 34 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org)
Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
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. cheers, Chanop 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.) Any ideas on what I can/should do to get the Debian install program to recognize her hard drive and start installation? Your help is much appreciated thanks! Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 5 hours, 34 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
There's a recent update to the Large-Disk mini-HOWTO which discusses this problem (and many others). It offers some solutions (which I have not tried--you are on your own). ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk Bob On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 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 dis k, NT can handle that. There is also a post about fdisk on slink can not handle hd 8Gb a bit ealier. cheers, Chanop 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.) Any ideas on what I can/should do to get the Debian install program to recognize her hard drive and start installation? Your help is much appreciated thanks! Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 5 hours, 34 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
