Re: hamm installation disks (1998-02-21)
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote:
> not sure if this is where i should mention this -- please redirect
> me if that is the case :-)
cc'd the boot floppy maintainer. The debian-testing@list.debian.org would
also be a good place.
> i've tried the hamm installation disks dated 1998-02-21 and cannot
> partition the hard drive i want to install on to. i get a message about
> not being able to detect the hard disk. during the boot process, the
> scsi card is recognized (tekram), and the hard disk is also recognized
> (scsi: 1 host -- an ultra wide ibm 4.3 gig hard disk).
I think these disk are fairly experimental. The safer hamm installation
may be the bo disk and autoup script. I believe the harddrive detection
has been changed and the bugs are still being worked out. The output of
"fdisk -l" may be helpful in debuging this problem.
> p.s. w/ the disks dated feb 18th, i successfully installed a system
> (this was for an ide drive though), but i had a few problems:
>
> 1) i needed to install some packages (mostly perl-related) to get the
> ftp method of dselect to work
>
> 2) could not make a boot disk -- i tried quite a few different floppies
> but i kept getting a 'boot disk creation failure' message.
Thanks for the report,
Brandon
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