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Can't install Athena Linux on /dev/hde
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugh Robinson)
Mon Apr 7 17:17:57 2003
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:17:02 -0400
From: Hugh Robinson <hugh@MIT.EDU>
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Looking at an outdated version of the script I found on the Web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.
