On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <w...@pacifier.com> wrote: > David Kaplan wrote: >> I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell Dimension 8400 >> desktop. It has a 250gb hdd. as sata 0 and the new 320gb hdd is set at sata >> 1. The BIOS sees both hdds but the Mint installer only sees the first 250gb >> hdd. Someone told me to turn off the raid setting but there is not way to >> turn it off in the BIOS. The Mint Forum told me to run on the live CD: >> >> $ sudo apt-get remove dmraid >> >> sounded like a good idea, but after running it and logging back in to the >> live CD nothing happened. The installer will only see the first 250gb hdd. >> >> Any other ideas? >> > Try Slackware? ;-) > Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
I like the way you think sir ;-) More on topic - Can you run something like fdisk or cfdisk and see if it sees the drive? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
