Hello Adrian! The problem with the drives was that there was that I put a terminator on the back of the card (an old Mac habit, 'terminate everything :))))))), probably the card is self-terminating, but there doesn't seem to be a way to get to the cards' BIOS.
Yesterday I was able to make the partitions (I made an 'a' partition, leaving more then 10Mb, free at the first cilinders as the manuals state), then making several other partitions to fill the first 18Gb disk (not making any partition bigger then 6Gb, because ext2 performs poorly on partition bigger then 6Gb and leaving the 'c' because that is supposed to be the whole disk if I understand everything correctly). Then I was able to install, but when I tried to boot it from the disk, it gave me an error message. Since it was already 9 in the evening, I decided to go home :) I am in another office now, so I can't really check the error message, but perhaps I made a mistake in the partitions, I'm not sure. I have to check tomorrow, and try and try again :) I find the partitioning quite 'difficult' and there isn't much of documentation. The things I find are for installing Linux as a second OS in a dual-boot environment. Greetings, Angelo -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Zaugg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 17 augustus 2004 10:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Debian on a Alphaserver 1200 Hi Angelo Angelo Machils wrote: > best use a RW disk..... But now the next problem, the install doesn't > 'see' any harddrives..... :( As of your SRM device listing you seem to have a QLogic ISP controller. This should be in the default kernel according to the installation manual (section 2.2.1). You may have greater success with an official CD image or you can try to preload the required module (qlogicisp; see chapter 10.4 of the i386 manual). If you do not want to download a whole cd-image you may install from floppy disks: You just need the rescue and root floppy. Regards, Adrian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
