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Re: debian installer not finding my hard disk on ibook



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Hi,

On Wed April 16 2003 14:08, Julius Ross wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 12:41  pm, Ivo Marino wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Julius Ross wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to install debian woody on an ibook but the installer does
> >> not find my hard disk.
> >
> > What version of the Apple iBook do you own? Maybe this could help.
>
> The problem was that the installer did not recognize my hard disk as
> because there was a cd in the drive (thanks to Chris Tillman for
> suggesting this).

Afaik this only affects some ibooks with a dvd/cd-rw combo drive due to a bug 
in its firmware. Newer kernels seem to have a work-around for that. 

>
> fyi this is an ibook2
>
> Julius

Have fun,
Chris

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Christoph Borsbach
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