/dev/sda is the drive where /dev/sda1 is a partition its trying to create. It doesn't see the drive at all on your system. There are 2 probable causes for this:
1. You don't have SCSI drives. If you have IDE drives you need to use the ide sample file or specify ide drives (like /dev/hda). 2. The SCSI adapter on your system is not supported with the SIS boot kernel. This is less likely, but still a possibility. 3. (ok I lied) The drive is broken. Mike On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 06:55, Mark D. Kottke wrote: > I'm using a fresh install of redhat 7.3 and I'm REALLY new to linux. The > oscar install seems to go smoothly until I need to autoinstall my > imagenode. In the beginning of the autoinstall script, which is after > successfully retrieving its IP(which I'm finally achieved), the > autoinstaller fails trying to partition the disk. I'm pretty much stuck. > > Here is the error from the client: > > partitioning sda... > /dev/sda: No such device > sfdisk: cannot open /dev/sda read-write > > I don't know why autoinstall is trying /dev/sda and not /dev/sda1. Here > is a copy of my disk partition file, I'm not sure if I got these > settings right > > /dev/sda1 45 ext3 /boot defaults > /dev/sda2 55714 ext3 / defaults > /dev/sda3 1992 swap > nfs_oscar:/home - nfs / > > And if you would like to see, here are the results for sfdisk -l > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 0+ 5 6- 48163+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 6 7221 7216 57962520 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 7222 7475 254 2040255 82 Linux swap > /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > > > > Thank You, > Mark Kottke > > San Diego State University > Department of Chemistry > 5500 Campanile Dr. > San Diego, CA 92182 > > 619-594-1593 (office) > 619-594-4634 (fax) > > The ones who are the happiest aren't necessarily the richest or the > wrinkle-free. They're the ones who accept the changes, keep on giving, > keep connected to friends and family, and perhaps most important, keep > feeding their minds. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users -- Michael Chase-Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
