hi debian gurus,
i am attempting a clean install on a system currently running windows 7 (i.e. i have saved the files i need and want to repartition the disk). i burned a .iso installer file for my system (64-bit intel, so i used the amd64 release of debian 8). when i boot from the CD (or if i just try to run setup.exe), the installation process goes smoothly -- configuring ethernet, setting up root password, etc. -- until i get to the partition disk step. at this point, i do not see the disk drives on the system, which are SATA. it asks for iSCSI volumes, of which there are none. if i try "write changes to disk and finish", the system just hangs. originally the system was configured as RAID. i've tried changing to non-RAID in the BIOS but i get the same error message. the hard drive control is a Marvell 88SE63xx/64xx, according to the BIOS set up file.
what to do?
thanks in advance.
-dh