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Hello,
I am doing something for my first time: building my own
system and installing Debian Linux 2.2r3. Everything seems to work fine
until I reach the part in the dbootstrap program where I need to partition my
hard drive(s). At that point, the installer pgm basically says "you don't
have any hard drives." I physically do, but it doesn't see them and I
can't proceed with installing Linux.
This is my system:
OS: Debian
Linux 2.2r3 (ONLY)
CPU:
AMD Athlon 1 G.
MB:
ABIT KT7A-RAID (I've set the BIOS to use RAID 0 (striping) for performance
enhancements
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 hw, checked that all cables were
secure, power supplied to devices, etc. I put the CD-ROM disc1 of the OS
in my CD-ROM drive and it begins the boot process.
Everything seems to be recognized except the hard
drives. The two CD devices are IDE. One is mounted on the mb IDE 1
controller, along with the ZIP drive. The other CD-ROM is connected to the
mb IDE 2 controller. The mb has 2 more controllers (IDE 3 & 4)
for UDMA-100. On each I have connected a Quantum drive.
Note that I have not formatted or partitioned the hard
drives. Without an OS, it's tough to do that! I have, after the
dbootstrap pgm 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/md0 -> 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 cmd.
My initial thought is that I shomehow need to format the
Hard 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 program would allow me to partion it/them and proceed in my Linux
installation.
I would certainly appreciate any help that could be provided
in getting over this hurdle.
Thanks,
Rob
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