Hi!
I'm trying to install debian 3.0 (woody) from CD to my Athlon PC. The
installation program fails to find my hard drive (which other
(commercial) distributions have located variously at /dev/hdg and
/dev/hde). It merely invites me to supply a Hard disk driver on a floppy
disk.
The problem seems to be that my (sole) hard drive is _not_ on the primary
IDE controller. It is on a secondary controller because this latter
works at ATA-100 speed.
The hard drive is in working order, and linux kernels can be successfully
booted from it.
My motherboard is an Epox EP-8K7A (or maybe an Epox EP-8K7A+ ??).
Presumably, I can give the installation kernel some parameter(s) which
will tell it to look at the third IDE controller to find a disk to
install onto. Presumably, also, this is described in a fine manual
somewhere I haven't yet been able to find.
Would somebody please point me towards the appropriate documentation, so
that I can get my system installed. Of course, if anybody is generous
enough just to tell me what the pertinent parameters are, that would be
most welcome, too. :-)
Many thanks in anticipation.