On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:44:57PM -0800, Ruben Lopez wrote: > I have a sarge .iso that I downloaded from debian.org and I am not able to > complete installation because the installer apparentlly cannot read a hard > drive. I have tried installation on two different systems - an ASSA mobo > with a VIA chipset, and an Intel board. I have also tried installation with > different drives, including 2 different Maxtors and a Seagate. The results > were all the same - the installations process stalls at "Partition a hard > drive". When I select the 'Partition..." option, the screen blinks, then the > menu reappears with the "Partition..." option selected and the system does > nothing. I started ash and tried to run cfdisk, but all I get is an error: > "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive. Press any key to exit". I notice that > many people are running sarge, so I'm a bit disappointed that I cannot even > get it installed. Right now I'm d/ling a sid iso to give that a try. >
Tel us more about your hardware. Is it known it runs Linux? Can you provid us the output of lspci and lspci -n ? > > > Ruben Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
