An acquaintance of mine has a new Gateway P3-450 computer with a 12 GB hard drive. She wants to use about half that space for Linux, and I recommended to her that she get slink, because I use it myself and am fairly familiar with it. However, when I tried to install from the slink CD's, I got an error about "Could not find a valid disk to install to." It seems that slink (and also RedHat 5.2) can't detect her hard drive!
I investigated further (it's not a partitioning problem, BTW.. fips worked fine, and i even tried downloading a windows program to make ext2 filesystems and rebooting again, with no luck..) I eventually found out that in her BIOS, under Primary Master, is listed [None]. I can change [None] to [Auto] but that doesn't help. The only device on there at all is Secondary master, which is her DVD-ROM drive (which debian can read perfectly fine.) Any ideas on what I can/should do to get the Debian install program to recognize her hard drive and start installation? Your help is much appreciated.... thanks! Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 5 hours, 34 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org)
