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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5555
go make comments to help with the resolution of this please
Hamish

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:30, Hamish Greig wrote:
> Unfortunately I think this is a limitation of our installer, it
> specifically uses /dev/discs/* but a scsi system using devfs would be
> /dev/scsi/* You could manually partition by using the correct path from the
> shell fdisk /dev/scsi/*/*/disc*
> then mount it to /mnt/root (and any other partitions to /mnt/root/*)
>
> I am surprised this hasn't been noticed before.
> I will file a bug that will hopefully get fixed in 0.9
> Hamish
>
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:53, 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?
> >
> > Cordially,
> > S. Barret Dolph
> > Taipei Taiwan
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