Ok first I should of mentionned this is a hitachi notebook (MX133T) The only thing that is removable is the hardrive/floppy drive and the pcmcia cards there are no cards installed. When I get the setup program to detect them it detects none, The hardrive must be removable but not easily. Both the cdrom and diskette drive owrk and are detected fine. The cdrom is IDE and is the primary slave on th notebook. There is no option to skip the drive but I do skip the detection of pcmcia devices as it generates and error.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0
> "Duval, Dominique" wrote:
>
> During the install when it prompts me wether this is an
> install or and upgrade I get an error that no partitions
> could be found. How can I create partitions? I get this
> error very early during the setup (before I get into the
> graphical installer
>
>
> "Only the insane have strength enough to prosper
> Only those who prosper truly judge what is sane"
>
> Dominique Duval
> Service Desk Agent
> Great West Life Assurance Co.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Dominique....is there a removable media IDE (or scsi) device
that has no media in it at the time you are installing. If so
maybe the installer is seeing that device and erroring on it.
Does the error applet have a choice to skip the drive. If so,
use it.
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