On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am stuck with the same problem, except for work reasons I can not be
> without a laptop so I can not delete all of the OS's to check. This is
> the white IBook, right?
>
> For some reason Mandrake, Yellowdog, Debian, and SUse are all having the
> same problem. Can not find /dev/hda - no messages, finds the CD fine on
> /dev/hdb, but no writable drive.
>
> -Chris
>
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 06:05 PM, Paul Sabatino wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote:
> >
> >> On 4/10/02 10:09 PM, "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Just for the heck of it I grabbed the YDL 2.2 iso, and tried it on
> >>>> the
> >>>> same iBook with exactly the same results. No /dev/hda and no mention
> >>>> of
> >>>> /dev/hda in the dmesg output. Nothing seemed unusual in the dmesg
> >>>> output,
> >>>> except for the fact that the hda device was missing :(
> >>>> If I get a chance I'll try an install again and post all the ide
> >>>> messages.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Interesting. One way to keep folks from putting Linux on their
> >>> Apples ;^)
> >>>
> >>> Stew Benedict
> >>
> >> Stupid I know, but I've seen it done before. You are making your linux
> >> partition as 'free space" when partitioning the drive?
> >> Colin
> >>
> >>
> > It's a valid question, but yes I am...at least I think I am. By free
> > space
> > you mean a partition of type 'Unallocated'.
> > After realizing that the device entry was being created in /dev I just
> > made the whole disk unallocated, booted the mdk CD and checked to see if
> > the device was there. And I have yet to be able to get it to create that
> > device.
> >
> > My machine has nothing on it right now, so I'm open to suggestions on
> > things to try to diagnose this a little more. Maybe my pain can make it
> > easier on somebody else someday. :)
> >
> > <--Paul-->
> >
> >
>
Yep, it's a brand new 600Mhz White IBook, 20GB drive. Since it's new I
decided to wait to get the other OS's all set up.
<--Paul-->
