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pacman@mpx.com.au (Paul Clyne) wrote:

>Apologies in advance if this is not the correct newsgroup.  I'm new (to 
>these groups).
>
>I'm having a problem with installing Linux (red hat 5.1).
>
>I've made the boot disk and the PC boots up ok, the install program 
>starts, I select local CD rom and everything is fine UNTIL we get to the 
>'partition hard disk' section.
>
>NO matter which of the two options I select I get the message that no HD 
>device could be found (Fdisk even go so far as to suggest that I didn't 
>configure a SCSI device).
>
>The problem is that the HD {Seagate ST3290A) is an IDE unit (as is the CD 
>(Mitsumi FX800S}).
>
>During the boot process (?) both these devices are identified.  hda = 
>seagate, hdb = FX800.
>
>I've tried setting the "slave is/is not ATA compatible" jumper on the HD.  
>I've changed the master/slave jumper on the CD.  I've DOS fdisked the HD 
>(both with and without Active partition, I've even removed the partition 
>all together)...  All to no avail.
>
>The HD works fine under DOS (an I suspect the CD would as well but I 
>didn't install the DOS drivers as Linux is detecting and running CD 
>without a hitch)
>
>The only other Card that is installed is a Trident video card, and all 
>the video seem to be fine.  The motherboard is a 486SX-33/8M  running AMI 
>bios (OPTI-495SX).
>
>Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong ?
>
>Are there some command line parameters I should be typing in ?
>
>Is there some compatibility problem I don't know about ?? (and given what 
>I know about Linux currently, that wouldn't be hard). 
>
>Am I just holding my mouth the wrong way ???
>
>I think that's all the information I can give.  Let me know if there is 
>some critical piece of information I've forgotton.
>
>PLEASE HELP..  I've run out of ideas..
>
>The only other constraint I ask is that you ALSO mail any replies to me 
>(as well as the list ?) as I'm having some problems with my ISP and the 
>linux groups.  I would hate to miss the answer..
>

I had a similar problem with a 386DX40/8MB, although in that case it
wouldn't detect the IDE CDROM, and the install prog froze when trying to
partition. I found some new install disk images from redhat, but these
still wouldn't work. I gave up and installed Redhat 4.2...
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