"Daniel P Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On a 2 hard-disk drive PC with Windows XP Professional and a Promise
> "Ultra133 TX2" ATA controller card
> (http://www.promise.com/product/subsys_detail_eng.asp?pid=87&fid=3) the
> Debian Installation System 3.0.23 (built on 15/05/02) gives the error
> message
> 
>       "No hard disk drives were detected"
> 
> after the
> 
>       "Configure the Keyboard"
> 
> selection is made.

Have you tried the other kernel images?  E.g., bf2.4, idepci

> When an attempt to access the floppy-disk drive for the ATA controller's
> device drivers is made, there is an error message that states that the
> floppy-disk drive cannot be mounted. (The floppy-disk was formatted for a
> IBM compatible PC. The user has not used Linux before.)

Did you try floppy=thinkpad ?  Sometimes that helps.

> Is the solution to be found in the following taken from the Debian web site
> (http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/)?

No.


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