[21773] in Athena Bugs
Re: Can't install Athena Linux on /dev/hde
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Apr 7 17:21:08 2003
To: Hugh Robinson <hugh@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 07 Apr 2003 17:21:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200304072117.RAA18160@no-knife.mit.edu>
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I highly doubt you are using "the SIPB installer", since SIPB
got out of the installer business over a year ago.
You should have sent this to "bugs". I've forwarded your
message there.
-derek
Hugh Robinson <hugh@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Dear linux-dev: recently I tried to use the SIPB installer to install
> Athena Linux 9.1 on a friend's machine. The phase 2 install script
> complained "No IDE drive found; a SCSI driver is required to proceed."
>
> Looking at an outdated version of the script I found on the Web
> suggests that the problem may be that the script only looks for a
> master device on the first two IDE controllers (hda and hdc) whereas
> this machine's drive was on the first uDMA (third IDE) controller hde.
> (Indeed, by inserting a CDROM into the IDE CDRW drive it was possible to
> fool the script into taking *that* to be hda, but attempting to install
> Athena Linux onto a CDROM doesn't seem like a profitable activity.)
>
> Would it be possible to modify the install script to install onto an
> arbitrary IDE drive? (If not, this seems to give the lie to the claim
> that Athena Linux installs on "any intel x86 based computer supported by
> Red Hat Linux", as asserted on http://www.mit.edu/~linux/.) Thanks,
>
> Hugh.
>
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