also, just burned iso2 of 7.0 and the problem with the install not seeing the
partition table is solved.....as previously stated, the reason for iso2 of 7.0
of course.
so this appears, again, specific to the hd.img (diskette) again.
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Roger wrote:
>
> > lol, i've got roughly 20 gb of data on it. ..unless i can borrow an extra 20gb
> > drive from somebody??? lol
> >
> > no i did not have to use that s/w. matter of fact all newer hdd's do not
> > require that (or cannot even use it). most of the hdd's or already preformat
>
> It isn't the drive but the bios that has the problems, that would require
> translation software. And _all_ maxtors come unformated and unpartitioned,
> btw.
>
> > anyways. when partitioning, i just use partition magic. never had this
>
> Thats the answer to your problem partition magic is hideing the partition
> most likely :)
>
> > problem before. i'm guessing (sigh, again) that it's probabely just because
> > it's with the hd.img....probabely something missing between it and the cdrom
> > install iso. (missing driver.....not able to find the proper module settings
> > etc...).
> >
> > *remember! this is a newer model hdd!
> >
> > all of my older hdd's are able to use the hd.img diskette. go figure.
>
> try finding the "cylinder limit" jumper and enableing it also
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