Dear Sir or Madam, I have recently received a brandnew Compaq Evo W8000 workstation accompanied by a Compaq OEM Windows XP disk. The objective was to install XP on the first two Maxtor SCSI disks (sda/sdb) and after that install Red Hat Linux 8.0 on the next two empty Maxtors (sdc/sdd). This was based on prior experience with Windows 2000 and Red Hat 8.0 (first install Windows and add Linux to that afterwards). Windows XP has been installed with NTFS (there was no other choice with Compaq OEM Windows XP btw), it now seems that even those disks that are empty have a difficulty : the system hangs during installation when the Adaptec aic7899 scsi driver is loaded. When reverting to Red Hat 7.3 the empty disks cannot be initialised either automatically or with disk druid. The installer says it needs to intialise the disk but warns that this would destroy all the data on it. When given the OK for the empty sdc and sdd it fails in initializing. Of course I realise that NTFS has its problems with support under Linux, but I can live with having disks split two ways (2 for Linux and 2 for XP). As long as installing either OS is not hindered, that is. Anybody have a clue how to proceed with the installed XP ? Anybody succeeded where I have failed (so far) ? Regards John Pover Disclaimer ************************************************************************ Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit bericht per abuis hebt ontvangen, wordt u verzocht het te vernietigen en de afzender te informeren. Wij adviseren u om bij twijfel over de juistheid of de volledigheid van de mail contact met afzender op te nemen. ************************************************************************ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
