Why would you expect a DOS floppy to see the drives if Linux does not? Greg On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Richard Villa wrote: > Well, > > First off, you need to make sure that the drives are set up correctly. > The jumpers need to be configured so that the first drive is the master, > and the second drive is the slave. > Next I would boot the machine with a dos floppy to make sure that the > system sees both drives. > TThen you need to partition the new drive, and if you are going to want > any dos partitions one the drive allocate and format them. > > Now you should be able to do your install. > > Richard > > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Charles Hallenbeck > wrote: > > > I hope someone may have an explanation or a suggestion for this > > one: > > > > My friend has a Gateway machine with Windows 98 on a 12 GB disk > > which works fine. She wants to move on up to Linux, and purchased > > a second HD, a Maxtor 40 GB disk. She knows even less about > > hardware than I do, and together we proceeded to just put the > > disk in the machine and cable it up, without even looking at its > > jumpers. > > > > The machine now still boots fine into Windows, and Windows can > > see the second drive okay. However, Linux cannot see either the > > old drive or the new one. She is going to install Slackware 8.0 > > on her second disk, but when the installation boot disk and root > > disk are run, and we have the login invitation as root, neither > > fdisk nor cfdisk can 'open' any of the four HD devices, not even > > /dev/hda. > > > > Reviewing the boot messages for the ramdisk installation system, > > there is no mention of any HD either. It does find her CD drive > > on /dev/hdc, but no other /dev/hdx devices are found. > > > > Anybody have any idea where to look for this problem? > > > > Thanks - Chuck > > > > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (24% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
