I'm trying to install Debian sarge on a hard drive in a USB enclosure. I got the 110MB sarge image. I can boot with either 2.4 or 2.6 kernel and after I partition the hard drive and when it starts to write the base-install data, the busy light on the drive enclosure stays on continuously, even after my laptop is powered down. I get a dbootstrap error, and in a console, it says it can't find the USB device file. If I go back through the setup, the USB hard drive is not shown anywhere to install to. To resume normal operation I have to turn the enclosure off, wait an appropriate amount of time, then turn it back on then it's okay.
The only non-standard thing I do is add the option "hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false" because if not, when PCMCIA is loaded, it locks up my laptop and I need to remove the AC adapter and battery before it will budge. The enclosure is a Hotway HD2-U2FW Firewire 400/USB 2.0 enclosure arouund a Maxtor 80GB hard drive. The enclosure has had 0 problems in Windows, so it sounds like something is fishy with the USB HDD drivers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
