This should be easy!

jdecoto · 12-13-2006, 08:40 PM

I am doing a new instalation on a new computer.
Asus Mother board and ATA Hardrive.
I boot from the CD Room and at boot:bare.i
when I go to create a partition I tries to create it on my CD Rom.
Any sugestions? Slackware 10.0

jdecoto · 12-13-2006, 09:06 PM

Question?
How do I create a partition on an ATA disk, bios recognize it?
fdisk /dev/hda??
Thanks!

Jefcard · 12-13-2006, 09:09 PM

try cfdisk more visual and imo easier to set up your partitions

jdecoto · 12-13-2006, 10:15 PM

I tried it and it seems to go direct to the cd rom.

H_TeXMeX_H · 12-13-2006, 10:38 PM

Try booting a different kernel, if you're installing on a "new" computer, I recommend booting the 2.6.x kernel...

boot:huge26.s

Edit: and use cfdisk to partition, I hate fdisk ! (I know it's only a different layout, but it makes a huge difference)

skog · 12-13-2006, 10:59 PM

I cant remember all the acronyms but try:

fdisk /dev/sda

if that doesnt work:

fdisk -l

that should list all the drives and the partitions on the drives.

Wim Sturkenboom · 12-14-2006, 12:22 AM

Is huge26.s not something for Slackware 11? jdecoto uses Slackware 10.0.

@jdecoto:
- what happens when you just hit enter at boot instead of selecting a kernel
- what's the output of fdisk -l

jdecoto · 12-14-2006, 05:50 PM

I tried huge26.s and I could not find it.
fdisk -l list no partions
fdisk /dev/sda can't find device
I started to download Slackware 11 but slow.
Any more suggestions?

mixtr · 12-14-2006, 08:54 PM

This sounds like you don't have a hard drive.
Check your bios to see if your hard drive is there and set properly.

Wim Sturkenboom · 12-14-2006, 10:03 PM

You posted that you have an ATA drive. Sure it's not a SATA.

If sata, use the sata.i kernel.
When you boot from CD, there's a line that gives an example how to boot. It starts with bare.i. Change bare.i to sata.i, adjust the remainder of the line (not sure what need to be changed).

jdecoto · 12-15-2006, 06:33 AM

Bios recognizes the drive fine, tried creating a partition with Win98 and it works, so it's not a hard drive problem.
I checked, Yes it's a sata drive not ata. Will try sata.i at bootup tonight.
Thanks

H_TeXMeX_H · 12-15-2006, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom

Is huge26.s not something for Slackware 11? jdecoto uses Slackware 10.0.

@jdecoto:
- what happens when you just hit enter at boot instead of selecting a kernel
- what's the output of fdisk -l

oops ... I didn't see that at first ... if you have SATA HDD (as you just said) and Slackware 10.0 then you are in trouble:

Quote:

|-- kernels/ Many precompiled Linux 2.4.26 kernel images.
| |
| |-- adaptec.s/ Adaptec kernel.
| |-- ataraid.s/ Kernel with ATA (IDE) RAID support.
| |-- bare.i/ Standard IDE kernel.
| |-- bareacpi.i IDE/ATAPI kernel with ACPI power support.
| |-- ibmmca.s/ IBM Microchannel kernel.
| |-- jfs.s/ IBM Journaled Filesystem +aic7xxx SCSI kernel.
| |-- loadlin16c.txt Loadlin README file.
| |-- loadlin16c.zip Loadlin boot loader (used to boot Linux from DOS)
| |-- lowmem.i/ Kernel that uses very little memory.
| |-- old_cd.i/ Old non-SCSI non-IDE CD-ROM support kernel.
| |-- pportide.i/ Parallel port IDE kernel.
| |-- raid.s/ SCSI RAID kernel.
| |-- scsi.s/ Supports some SCSI cards (see bootdisks/README.TXT).
| |-- scsi2.s/ Supports some SCSI cards (see bootdisks/README.TXT).
| |-- scsi3.s/ Supports some SCSI cards (see bootdisks/README.TXT).
| |-- speakup.s bare.i + Speakup speech support. Also AIC7xxx SCSI.
| |-- xfs.s Bootdisk with support for SGI XFS and AIC7xxx SCSI.
| `-- zipslack.s/ Kernel with Iomega and other SCSI support.

source: ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/...0.0/README.TXT

There is no kernel that supports SATA in 10.0 ...

... get 11.0 if you can.

In case you were wrong and have ATA, try

boot:ataraid.s

jdecoto · 12-15-2006, 09:36 PM

It worked! Thanks everyone.
at boot:sata.i
when fdisk -l it showed my hard drive
cfdisk /dev/sda it allows me to modify it.
So I created my swap (2XRAM) and my boot partion.
Now I can continue thanks!

jdecoto · 12-15-2006, 10:42 PM

I can't complete the installation.
I go into setup, ADDSWAP, set my partition, and go into a full install and it starts nice. Suddenly 10 seconds into the installation:
Fatal error, install package error no. 1
.....
It seems so, I figure either my cd is bad (no scratches) or version 10 is the problem.
I start from scratch, ver. 11.0 recognizes SATA from start and my partitions.
Same problem.
I can change the drive to IDE, but don't want to give up so easily.
Any ideas?

WindowBreaker · 12-16-2006, 11:42 AM

You need to determine whether your install disc or your CD-ROM is bad. I suggest checking the md5sum, as explained here, and comparing it against the known MD5 of the install ISO file here.

Basically, here's how it's done:
1. Put the Slackware CD 1 into CDROM drive.
2. run the command 'isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom'
3. Note the 'logical block size (usually 2048)' and the 'volume size'. We'll call the block size BLOCKSIZE and the volume size VOLUMESIZE.
4. run the command 'dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=BLOCKSIZE count=VOLUMESIZE | md5sum'
5. The md5sum that is output should match exactly to the md5sum published for the slackware disk you're using.

If not, you need to narrow down which of the following is corrupted:
1. Your ISO downloaded file.
2. Your CD media.
3. Your CD-ROM/RW drive