Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?
I'm not sure whether it's the same model or not. But I used to install potato on one G7-450 with 12GB HD. On that machine, fdisk on debian can read only first 8GB. So I end up repartitioning so Debian can live withing the first 8 GB, the rest of the disk, NT can handle that.
There is also a post about fdisk on slink can not handle hd > 8Gb a bit ealier.
cheers,
Chanop
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 01:37:06AM -0500, Colin McMillen wrote:
> An acquaintance of mine has a new Gateway P3-450 computer with a 12 GB
> hard drive. She wants to use about half that space for Linux, and I
> recommended to her that she get slink, because I use it myself and am
> fairly familiar with it. However, when I tried to install from the slink
> CD's, I got an error about "Could not find a valid disk to install to."
> It seems that slink (and also RedHat 5.2) can't detect her hard drive!
>
> I investigated further (it's not a partitioning problem, BTW.. fips
> worked fine, and i even tried downloading a windows program to make ext2
> filesystems and rebooting again, with no luck..) I eventually found out
> that in her BIOS, under Primary Master, is listed [None]. I can change
> [None] to [Auto] but that doesn't help. The only device on there at all
> is Secondary master, which is her DVD-ROM drive (which debian can read
> perfectly fine.)
>
> Any ideas on what I can/should do to get the Debian install program to
> recognize her hard drive and start installation?
>
> Your help is much appreciated.... thanks!
>
> Colin McMillen
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