I'm trying to install a clean sarge/testing debian on a DS20L, but with little success. (It's an IDE drive, no floppy, no SCSI drive but has a built-in SCSI). I was able to use the debian-installer to shell-out and execute fdisk to create a BSD disklabel and useful partitions. The shell, however, does not have a /dev/hda even though it has a /dev/discs/disc0/ and /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/ which point to the IDE drive. Using "discover scsi" finds it's controller, but using "discover ide" shows nothing. partman sees the drive, but of course that's useless. So I used mk2fs and mkswap on the /dev/discs paths and even mounted them in the shell. Exiting the shell and trying to 'install the base system' says that there is no root filesystem defined. Does anyone know how to work around that? I think the 2.4.25-1 generic alpha kernel doesn't see my IDE drive, however, even though it sees the SCSI controller. Is that possible? _____________________________________________________________________ Dan Cernese dan<at>hp.com Hewlett-Packard Company phone: +1 (603) 884-0289 110 Spit Brook Road ZKO1-3/H41 FAX: +1 (603) 884-5110 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698 dhcernese<at>alum.wpi.edu
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