Kai, Yes it is a firewire drive, yes I did select "install firewire" pressing TAB does not bring up the firewire option. I am running Ubuntu in another partition on my internal HD and it recognizes the drive, so I went so far as to format one of the partitions with ext3. It made no difference, the installer still doesn't recognize the drive. -- Steven Didier
> From: Kai Staats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Terra Soft Solutions > Reply-To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:17:36 -0700 > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Firewire install question > > On Friday 17 March 2006 13:18, Steven Didier wrote: >> I bought the geek edition disk set 4.1 rather than continuing with the >> hassle of the downloads. I¹m having problems getting the installer to >> recognize my external drive. I have the drive formatted with 2 partitions: >> the first one marked free and the second extended using the disk utility on >> my system restore disk. I have been through innumerable partitons on this >> drive. Each time I partition it either as a single free space, extended 1 >> or 2 partitions etc. both my G5 iMac and my TiPower Book recognize the >> drive and the extended aprtition. But YDL installer refuses to recognize >> the drive. Any ideas cause I¹m fresh out? > > 1) I assume this is a FireWire drive? > > 2) Did you select the FireWire capable kernel from the Installer's first > screen (white text on a black bg)? > > ... press TAB at this screen for full options. > > kai > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
