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["S. Barret Dolph" <wheds8 AT ms66.hinet.net>]

I tried to load the module seagate.o from the initrd ..kernel...scsi options 
to no avail. Will try to go out, partition, and restart the installation


On Monday 19 January 2004 19:49, Hamish Greig wrote:
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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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