Ken,
I had a similar problem with disk druid. I discovered that it balked at several
stages, depending on the sequence of my requests, native vice swap, / vice /var, etc.
My box has 3 drives on it and it complicated matters further. I had to reinstall twice
to figure out what it liked. Druid worked for me finally.
As for the real problem, sorry, can't help ya' there. So far all my hardware is
ancient enough to be in the LINUX world and stable. I'm simply dumb in LINUX and
trying to do more than I currently know how to accomplish. Anyone good at LINUX
networking and Proxy/Firewall server setups?
B. B.
Ken Hughes wrote:
> I am building a new Linux box at work an ran into a few problems. The
> computer is a AMD K6-333 processor with a gigabyte motherboard that has a
> ALI 15xx chipset a ATI All In Wonder Pro Video card, 128 meg of Ram a cdrom
> drive, and 3 LinkSys networking cards, and a 27 Gig Maxtor hard drive that
> is brand new never been in a windows PC. This system will not have anything
> on it but Linux. The bios doe support the full size of the drive and I have
> tried it in both LBA mode and Normal.
>
> My problem was that during the install when I got to setting up partitions
> I made a 50 meg "/boot" partition first and then a 120 meg swap partition
> and then split the remaining space in a "/", "/home", "/usr", and a "/var"
> saved and exited disk druid. The first thing I was told was that I did not
> have a swap partition and offered to let me go back I tried to go back and
> check it but disk druid and fdisk said it could not read the partition table
> and file not found. I even tried Alt F2 to get to a console and fdisk it but
> it wouldn't recognize it either. I then tried a win 98 boot disk and the
> fdisk on it saw that I had 2 partitions a 50 meg NON DOS and a extended
> partition that was marked as dos It let me delete the non dos partition. I
> finally used the maxtor boot disk that came with the drive to make an all
> DOS partition the first thing it told me was it did not recognize the
> partition type but did let me create 1 large Dos partition. Which I was
> then able to delete with DOS fdisk and start the install again.
>
> I tried the above several times with the exact same results. Finally I used
> fdisk instead of Disk Druid created the same number of partitions and
> everything went smooth. Linux now sees the whole drive and I completed the
> install. I assume the problem is with Disk Druid being that fdisk worked.
>
> On My network I just selected NE2000 PCI and it recognized and set them up
> no problems there also no problems with my video.
>
> The system is now up and operating. I do have one minor problem though.
> Linux doesn't seem to support the ALI 15xx chipset for the IDE controller it
> says unknown IDE type and won't let me use UDMA or DMA mode. Does anyone
> know if there is a patch or anything I can do to get it to work in DMA or
> UDMA or do I need to buy a new mother board?
>
> I know most of what I typed here is not relevant to my problem just thought
> my experiences might help some one else.
>
> Ken Hughes
