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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Sunday 18 January 2004 7:53 am, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> Dear sirs,
>
> When attempting to procede through the installation I cannot execute the
> partition phase. I get a flickering message that reads
>
>       use dev/discs no such file or directory
>
> If I go out to the shell I get the following message:
>
>       FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
>               Press any key to exit cfdisk
>
> If I run fdisk /dev/sda I get....
>
>       Unable to open /dev/sda
>
> My box currently has Linux on it. Could I go out of the installation
> process, do my partitioning and then proceed?


Yes you can.  Just skip the partitioning step and go straight to the mounting 
of existing partitions step.  (I forget what the actual names are, but I'm 
sure you get the idea.)  However, it is possible that if you cannot access 
the drives for partitioning, you may not be able to access them for mounting, 
either.

I assume based on your message that you have at least one SCSI drive 
installed, but for clarity's sake, what kind of controller(s) and drive(s) do 
you have installed in the computer?


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