Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

[gremio@ai.mit.edu]

Hi Roger,

I also have the combo drive, I'm sorry if I said something else.  
And I have no trouble booting the machine with a cd in the drive, 
which it will happily ignore unless I hold down 'c', as usual. 
Is that what you meant by "can't be booted with a CD in the drive"?

I'm not sure I understand your suggestion about installing from the
network.  I don't mind where I install from, but if I've booted off the
hard drive, I won't be able to install onto it, and booting off the debian
cd (or I imagine any cd with similar kernel and config) makes me unable to
see the hard drive, so I'd have a chicken and egg problem, no?

Many thanks,
Gremio


On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Oct 20 2002, gremio@ai.mit.edu wrote:
> > The installer boots fine, but claims I have no hard drive.
> 
> 	Some people have reported that some iBooks can't be booted
> 	with a CD in the drive. Perhaps that is also the problem
> 	you're seeing?
> 
> 	In that case, I guess that trying to install woody via the
> 	network would work.
> 
> 	Fortunately, it seems that my iBook (which is also a 600MHz
> 	model, with Rage128 but with a combo drive) doesn't have that
> 	problem.
> 
> 
> 	Hope this helps, Roger...
> 
> 

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