No partitionable media were found

chameleonic · 06-27-2006, 05:11 AM

Hello. I'm trying to install Debian 3.1 r2 "Sarge" Official 20060419 on Toshiba Satellite A100 and receive "no partitionable media were found". The same with Slackware.
I partitioned the Hard Drive with qtparted from SystemRescueCD-x86-0.2.15, no luck. SUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora Core detect HDD, whereas Debian, Slackware don't.
I tried mount but you can't mount if it doesn't exist.
I tried with both options: default and linux26- the same.
Can anybody help me as I'm new and fresh to this kind of linux thing? Thank you.

r0b0 · 06-27-2006, 06:00 AM

You can try a newer (beta) debian installer

chameleonic · 06-27-2006, 06:27 AM

Thanx r0b0. I'm downloading current weekly snapshot of Debian testing i386 DVD set. It says it uses the same version of the installer as the last release, let's hope it works. Can't use jigdo install way for Debian testing, as I'm on Mac and it doesn't play with Mac.

r0b0 · 06-27-2006, 07:45 AM

If I were you, I would try to download a smaller size installer ISO, just to check whether the hardware is detected correctly. Like the net-install ISO or business card CD ISO.
Just to save some bandwith

chameleonic · 06-27-2006, 09:18 AM

I've got it already. Likely DSL speed impressive today. The installation process in progress. It looks OK. HDD was detected, parted manually.
Restart .... Full screen desktop. which is unusual. Under the rest of the distros, I had to set up firstly vesa driver, download and install ATI proper driver and after all of that I could've apritiated the full desktop picture.
No sound though. will work on it. Thanks r0b0.

happy_john_ye · 07-28-2006, 02:36 PM

Hi chameleonic,
I encountered same problem with you. But the server was down in Sweden. Did you download the first cd only or all of them? Could you do me a favor to get the beta version installer? Send it to me by email or send it to my FTP server? You can send your contact information to my yahoo: happy_john_ye@yahoo.com. Thank you so much! John