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

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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:33, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> I tried fdisk /dev/scsi/hostO/busO/targetO/lunO/disc and got the message
> unable to open file or directory. If I redo the partitions without booting
> into the SM CD, then reboot, should I be able to proceed with the
> installation?
>

you did load the right scsi module for your card when the chance was offered 
in the initrd ?
do you have anything in /dev/scsi ?


> Cordially,
> S. Barret Dolph
>
> I tried writing the ISO to a writable disc but it seems the ISO maybe too
> large. My writables are 650 and the read only are 700. (So I could make a
> sym link to change the partition sections for a SCSI drive.)

the ISO is only 198MB, one third the size of a regular cd, so I don't know 
why 
you were having problems. but writing to a writable disc won't help I don't 
think. 

>
> PS. Apolgies for sending this reply to you and not to the list.

that's ok, and thanks for then replying to the list. I was about to forward 
your message to me onto the list and you saved me the trouble .


you can partition before booting and then mount manually to /mnt/root from a 
shell during the install.

Hamish
> On Monday 19 January 2004 09:51, Hamish Greig wrote:
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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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