nsche
January 28th, 2009, 06:55 AM
I have an old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop with a Celeron, 192 mb ram and a 10gb disk. The cd is toast (apparently I threw it out cause I cannot even find it) but it will talk on the net using win 98 with an ethernet card I have. Using win 98 I have transfered vmlinuz and initrd.gz to the disk and can boot using linld097. I transfered a copy of the alternative iso over and want to do an install from that.
The problem comes with partman. It does not give me the chance to partition sda. It does not even come up on its list. If I attach an external usb disk that disk is detected and it offers to partition it but not sda. Looking in syslog nothing looks strange. The disk and its partitions are detected. sda1 is mounted on /hd-media and is usable (though ro).
Why does partman not detect it? What can I do to work around this? Any ideas?
Thanks
Norm
The problem comes with partman. It does not give me the chance to partition sda. It does not even come up on its list. If I attach an external usb disk that disk is detected and it offers to partition it but not sda. Looking in syslog nothing looks strange. The disk and its partitions are detected. sda1 is mounted on /hd-media and is usable (though ro).
Why does partman not detect it? What can I do to work around this? Any ideas?
Thanks
Norm