On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:00:36AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > I really have no idea which package to file this against . . . Gateway's tech support department, likely. <g> see below. > My boss's new system arrived; a Gateway NS-7000, dual PII, 512Mb, 3x4Mb scsi. > > After making a new resc1440 disk (it wouldn't boot off my regular one; I > assume something to do with alignment), I started up installation. I'm not sure I'm clear as to what your problem is in this case. If it's something like a driver that just isn't on the disk, then yeah I can see the reason for this.. But what you describe doesn't sound like that. Did you do anything different in your boot disk from "normal" (whatever that is) > Partitioning the hard disks was not possible from within the program. It > simply announced that fdisk was unable to format the disks. On a new SCSI drive, you always need a "low-level" format first to put a normal/empty partition table on the drive. That was probably your problem here. > I switched to the second console, and looked at them with fdisk. Or tried :) > They spewed more than a screeenful of data, but the gist was that all for > partitions were not on boundaries. These disks had not been formatted; we > bought the machine without an OS. You should have formatted them, then. Your SCSI BIOS provides the method to do this. > By blindly deleting all four partitions on each drive, fdisk was able to go > happily about it's business. > > My suggestion would be rather than bombing with no message (or one that > doesn't ask for an acknowledgement, and thus just flashes by), that, if unable > to execute, fdisk as called from the installation package ask for permission > to delete all partitions on the hard disk. This is a rather extreme case I think. The reason I'm so certain this sounds like what I believe is because I had the same kind of problem back in my OS/2 days when I got my old HP SCSI drive.
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