Installationproblem with suse 8.2

wimmo1956 · 08-12-2003, 02:56 PM

I am a newbie in linux; I am trying to instal suse 8.2 on my new system but the harddisk was not found. The hard disk was prepared with partitionmagic 7.0. I have anew system with a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 (S-ata) How can i solve this problem.

esteeven · 08-12-2003, 03:02 PM

The first thing that springs to mind is that the HDD might not be connected properly - is it detected by the BIOS? Sorry if this is too elementary but hit the Delete key as your system boots and have a look in the relevant BIOS section to see if your HDD is there. Is it the only HDD on the system or is it a second HDD?
Good luck!

wimmo1956 · 08-12-2003, 03:07 PM

I have XP also on my system and that is working good.
I have 1 hard disk 120 Gb, partioned in a part for Xp 85Gb (NTFS)
30gb linuxext2 (partionmagic) and linux swap 2 gbyte.

esteeven · 08-12-2003, 03:33 PM

120GB? I dream of 120GB!!

How exactly are you installing SuSE? I did the same thing with XP and PM 7 (ish) on a laptop the other day (errr...weeks months ago!) - sorry to ask such an elementary question. It's just the way my mind works. I'd hate to miss the obvious - even thought the obvious is never obvious really.

acid_kewpie · 08-12-2003, 04:23 PM

please read this....

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=81005

trickykid · 08-12-2003, 04:32 PM

Moved: Wrong forum, more suitable in the Newbie forum.

Ken Ju-On · 08-12-2003, 04:45 PM

Sorry I can't help much, but as Esteeven said above, it's mostly a hardware problem. I bought SuSE 8.2 and installed it on both my computers. Detection went quite smoothly, although sometimes you do have to tell SuSE about your hardware.