There's a recent update to the Large-Disk mini-HOWTO which discusses this problem (and many others). It offers some solutions (which I have not tried--you are on your own).
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk Bob On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 05:35:46PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > I'm not sure whether it's the same model or not. But I used to install potato > on one G7-450 with 12GB HD. On that machine, fdisk on debian can read only > first 8GB. So I end up repartitioning so Debian can live withing the first 8 > GB, the rest of the dis k, NT can handle that. > > There is also a post about fdisk on slink can not handle hd > 8Gb a bit > ealier. > > > cheers, > > Chanop > > On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 01:37:06AM -0500, Colin McMillen wrote: > > 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) > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Chanop Silpa-Anan > > Australian National University. > > Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) > +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) > > ICQ uin 11366301 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
