Dear Micha³; You can't install Mandrake, because you don't have any free
partitions left. You said that you had 3 - 10Gb partitions all formatted
with DOS? you need at least one partition UNFORMATTED for Mandrake. It will
format the partition for Linux-Mandrake while it is installing. If all 3
partitions are already formatted for DOS/Windows, there is no place for
Mandrake. Also, check the CD that came with your ASUS board. See if it has a
driver section for the Promise ATA100 adapter on the M/B. There may be a
Linux Driver on it. If your BIOS doesn't detect the drive, check the drive
to make sure that the jumpers on it are set to Master. If they are, replace
your IDE cable (it may be defective,..but probably not). Borrow another IDE
drive and see if your BIOS will detect it. If it does, there may be a
problem with your drive. In any case, you'll have to delete one partition
(the second one is your best bet) in order to make room for Mandrake. Make
sure that you back up your data first!
Good luck!
Dan LaBine
Registered Linux User #190712
----- Original Message -----
From: "Micha³ POZARZYCKI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: [newbie] No hard disk
> Hi everybody!
>
> I've got a problem with Mandrake 7.2 installation. All goes well
> until the programme asks me for existing SCSII driver. Recording
> to the manual of my motherbard (ASUS VIA 761 Chipset) there is a
> driver Promise. There is no such a driver in the list I have to
> choose from. Anyway I try to say
> no SCSII device and then the programme say there is no valid
> device where the file system can be placed, check for hardware
> error. My hard disk is
> Seagate Barracuda IDE 30,8GB, so I assume that thye error is not
> connected
> with possible SCSII device error that I probably do. An
> additional information is that my BIOS doesn't detect hard disk,
> the field Primery Master say None when booting. Also in the Bios
> Setup when I choose autodetect Primery Master the Bios doesn't
> recognize any data (like PIO level or UDMA level). When I set
> Secondary Master autodetect it chooses CD-recorder and gets the
> information on PIO or UDMA.
> Sorry if I haven't included enough information - I'm not to good
> at it. I am very determined to install Linux on my desktop, but
> can't deal with that stuff. If it helps the windows 98 goes
> almost well and it recognizes all my three partitions of the
> drive, which have been made by firm I bought the computer from
> (thay used Partition Magic or some stuff that sounds similiar,
> made three partitions 10GB each, and the partitions are in the
> format compatibile with DOS or smth.)
>
> Appreciate any comment
>
> michal
>
>
