Ahh, I looked on the card itself, and found this: aha-2940u2b I assume that's helpful, what with the aha listings in the driver select (nothing coming close to a match however).
What do you reccomend? Michael Snyder Chief Llamaherder - SnyderCreative www.SnyderCreative.com <http://www.SnyderCreative.com> Want to receive the Cynic Gazette newsletter? Click here <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=ADD+ME> and get added to the list. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Life, the Universe and Installing PPC 8 on an extra hard drive On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael Snyder wrote: > Partition scheme on the extra drive = resulting error message > > 50 gig HFS = No valid filesystem to install linux > 50 gig HFS+ = No valid filesystem to install linux > 5 gigs HFS, 45 gigs empty = No valid filesystem to install linux > 5 gigs HFS+, 45 gigs empty = No valid filesystem to install linux > 15 gigs HFS, 15 gigs HFS+, 20 gigs empty = No valid filesystem to install > linux > > Now, is what I'm trying to do even possible? Do I need some openfirmware > magic to go before it? CAn I accomplish this on a non-boot disk? Do I need > the OS 8.6 install cd to do this even though I have a working OS on the > smaller(boot) drive? Do I need a voodoo doll of Steve Jobs? > I vote for that last option =) (not really). This should be quite possible. Free space on the drive is the best plan. At what point are you seeing this error? I would: Run the install up to the partitioning stage. Select "Custom disk partitioning" At which point I would expect to see two tabs, one for each drive. Now it's possible the error you are seeing is being driven by the attempt to create the bootstrap partition, but the error should be more along the lines of "No space to create 1MB bootstrap". I've never tried putting the bootstrap on a 2nd drive, but it should be possible, as long as Open Firmware can find it. It may be that the search isn't really considering the 2nd drive, but I thought even then that I had modified things during 8.0 that it just warns you of possible future problems of not having one and lets the install continue. If it is the bootstrap creation that's triggering it, it will hit before the diskdrake screen. Also, are these IDE drives? If it's SCSI, there may not be a driver loading to see the drives. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
