Bug#129479: scsi disk not detected
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:56:00AM +0100, Manuel Quesada wrote:
> > Maybe the installer is trying to mount /dev/hda, which would be a
> > standard type disk on a newWorld. Try switching to virtual console 2,
> > or use the Execute a Shell menu command, to enter
> >
> > mac-fdisk /dev/sda
> >
> > After partitioning it the linux partitions will definitely be visible
> > to the installer.
> >
> > --
> > *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
> > | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> |
> > | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
> > | Chris Tillman tillman@azstarnet.com |
> > | May the Source be with you |
> > *----------------------------------------------------------------*
>
> I did it, but didn' work. It can'f find the device.
Well, certainly, you do not have a scsi disk that mac-fdisk can
find. Is it by chance a pc-formatted scsi? mac-fdisk would try to read
the partition table at the beginning of the disk, which is an Apple
format.
Possibly you could use Drive Setup to initialize the disk (if you have
MacOS available). If you don't have MacOS, and you have a floppy (but
this was an iMac, wasn't it?) you could use the downloadable MacOS
Disk Tools floppy to do that.
If you have another Linux system, you could always connect the drive
in to that system to get it initialized or even to install on it, and
then move it back.
--
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
| <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> |
| debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@azstarnet.com |
| May the Source be with you |
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