[Linux-aus] SCSI Installation with RedHat

[Richard Jenkins]

Hi there from Canberra!

I am getting into difficulty with an attempted RH 6.2/7.1 linux install.  Can
you assist??

My machine is a 350 MHz K6 ... and I have 128 Meg of RAM.  Video is a S3 card
... so maybe I should concentrate on XFree86 version 3.3.6.  First hard drive
is an 1.2 Gig IDE model ... which runs drdos 7.03.

The target for the install is a SCSI disk ... a 2 gig IBM model which has formatted
up well and (with the help of an old Slackware 3.5 distribution) I have installed
a linux native partition of 1.9 gig ... and approximately 100 Meg of linux swap.


I cannot get the installer to see the hard drive!  Under dr-dos the drive can
also be seen and formatted.

I tried loading 'boot.img' ... and then choosing Expert mode.  Then when asked
I tried using the drivers.img disk and the following settings which are correct
for my host adapter.

aha152x=0x140,10,7,1

ie   Adaptec 1505 card, I/O address 0x140, IRQ=10, host address =7 and enable
parity check.

Still the installer reports only the IDE hard drive.  Has anyone solved this
riddle?  

I can install Slackware using the above hardware ... but I am restricted to
older versions ... and I would like some of the features of RedHat or Mandrake.
 

Has anyone got any ideas please??


Richard

Howe
http://www.alphalink.com.au/