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Hello,
I am doing something for my first time: building my own
system and install Debian Linux 2.2r3. Everything seems to work fine until
I reach the part in dbootsrap where I need to partion my hard drive(s). At
that point in time, the installer pgm basically says "you don't have any
disks." I physically do, but it doesn't see them.
This is the system I have put together:
OS: Debian
Linux 2.2r3 (only)
Motherboard: ABIT
KT7A-RAID. I have set this up in the BIOS to use RAID 0 (striping) for
performance enhancement.
CPU:
AMD Athlon 1.0 Gig
CD-ROM: I/O Magic
CD-Burner:
Pacific Digital
ZIP
Drive: Iomega 100
Floppy:
Generic
Hard Drives: Quantum
Fireball 30 Gig (2). Bought as "Bare" drives.
I have installed all the hardware, checked that all cables
were secure, power supplied to devices, etc. I put the CD-ROM disc of the
OS into my CD-ROM drive and it begins the boot process.
I assume the CD-ROM drive is recognized correctly (it wouldn't
have started the boot process if not). Everything except the hard drives
seems to be recognized. The two CD-ROM devices
are IDE. One is mounted on the m.b. IDE 1 controller. The other,
along with the ZIP drive, is on the IDE 2
controller. The m.b. has 2 more controllers (IDE 3 & IDE 4) for
UDMA-100: on each I have connected a Quantum
drive.
Note that I have not formatted nor partitioned the hard
drives. Without an OS, it's tough to do that! I have, after the
dbootstrap program started, "alt'd" into the linux prompt. I ran the
following commands:
e2fsck /dev/hda -> read only file
system. not ext2 format.
e2fsck /dev/hdb -> device not
configured
e2fsck /dev/hdc -> device not
configured
e2fsck /dev/hdd -> read
only file system
e2fsck /dev/mdo -> attempt to read block
for filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/md0. Could
this be a
0-length partition?
I also ran cfdisk. It defaulted to /dev/hda and was read
only. I did get some practice on how to use the cfdisk.
My initial thought is that I somehow need to format the
Quantum drives that are RAID0'd together to be seen as one unit. ( I don't,
however, know the exact syntax to do that.) If the Linux system saw them as one
unit and I knew that name, like /dev/md0, I think the dbootstrap installer would
allow me to partition it/them and proceed.
I would certainly appreciate any help that could be provided
in getting over this hurdle.
Thanks,
Rob
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