Re: Help Installing Debian
On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:35:42 +0530, Joy wrote:
> I am using IBM System X 3400 M3 with Raid1 and Raid5.
> Raid1 id being used to have Debian and raid5 for /home partiotion.
Are those raid over a hardware raid controller or you want to create a
software based raid?
> Whenever i am trying to install it after creating a partition when it
> goes to format reboots my system.
You can try to install Debian with the partitions already made and
formatted, using the Gparted LiveCD.
> I have also tried lenny 5.8 which is not detecting my disk at all
> neither showing anything missing.
Better than lenny is squeeze, now the current stable. If lenny was not
detecting your hard disks that can mean that:
1/ Your hard disk controller is very new and the kernel shipped with
lenny did not included the drivers for it.
2/ Your hard disk setup is not recognized by the installer (for instance,
if you are using the BIOS sata raid facility and so you need to use
"dmraid", which I do not recommend at all).
> I have tried RHEL 5.4 which says can not create boot partition because
> og GPT partitioning scheme. I could only manage to install RHEL 6
> successfully.
I have not much experience with GPT partitioning but nowadays with
moderns distributions it should not be a problem :-?
Debian installer logs messages to console tty4, maybe you can jump into
it at the partitioning stage to have more information about the error.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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