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["Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>]

Hamish

Your comment below has prompted me to ask whether our installer
has the ability to find SATA drives as well?

These types of drives appear to becoming more popular and so maybe this
should perhaps
be addressed as well.

Craig
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From: "Hamish Greig" <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] partitioning


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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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