On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:56:00AM +0100, Manuel Quesada wrote: > > Maybe the installer is trying to mount /dev/hda, which would be a > > standard type disk on a newWorld. Try switching to virtual console 2, > > or use the Execute a Shell menu command, to enter > > > > mac-fdisk /dev/sda > > > > After partitioning it the linux partitions will definitely be visible > > to the installer. > > > > -- > > *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* > > | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | > > | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | > > | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > | May the Source be with you | > > *----------------------------------------------------------------* > > I did it, but didn' work. It can'f find the device.
Well, certainly, you do not have a scsi disk that mac-fdisk can find. Is it by chance a pc-formatted scsi? mac-fdisk would try to read the partition table at the beginning of the disk, which is an Apple format. Possibly you could use Drive Setup to initialize the disk (if you have MacOS available). If you don't have MacOS, and you have a floppy (but this was an iMac, wasn't it?) you could use the downloadable MacOS Disk Tools floppy to do that. If you have another Linux system, you could always connect the drive in to that system to get it initialized or even to install on it, and then move it back. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
