> I have been trying to install the Debian Linux package I bought a few days ago, on two DVDs,
> and have run into difficulties.
>
> I have a Pentium 4 at 3.2 GHz and am running Windows XP. I have a hard
> disk of 250 GBytes partitioned into C and D drives. However I have also a
> USB external hard drive of 12 Gbytes and this is where I want to install
> Linux. But the DVD does not recognise any of these drives; it only picks
> up my SCSI Zip drive and instructs me to install on that. When I try to
> do so I get "error message No. 1", whatever that means.
>
> When I run the computer up, my BIOS does give the message "initialising
> USB controllers ... Done", and then lists the USB devices, so I know the
> computer as such recognises the external hard drive.
>
> How do I persuade the installation system to find my hard drives correctly?
>
> J. I. Anderson

Jia,

Have a look at this link.

Hope, this will help you