HD Install not working

Forum: HD Install
Topic: HD Install not working
started by: ntolman

Posted by ntolman on Nov. 30 2005,00:13

I'm trying to install DSL onto my hard drive and it doesn't seem to be working.

First off I'm installing to a SATA HD.

So I start the program to install DSL to my hard drive but after I answer the questions it asks and then it just closes.

So then I decide to use fdisk to check my partition table.

I type in:

fdisk /dev/sda

and it tells me it's unable to open the hard drive.

I try cfdisk and it gives me a fatal error.

I've tried searching the forums for answers but I haven't found any that seem to address my particular problem.

Any suggestions?

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 30 2005,03:10

I dont believe DSL supports SATA

I could be wrong

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 30 2005,04:34

DSL 2.0 has support for manually loading the SATA drivers.

There are some improvements to make things better that are being considered for the next release of DSL.

So you can either wait for the next release, or do this (taken from the DSL 2.0RC2 post):

FYI,

The SATA hard disk driver works for the Dell Optiplex GX280 and DSL 2.0RC2

Instructions (from memory):

1) Boot DSL livecd
2) Download the modules_cut.tar.gz file from the release candidate download site.
3) Open an xterm and type:

sudo su
/etc/init.d/mkwritable
tar -zxvf modules_cut.tar.gz -C /
modprobe ata_piix
/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig
exit
exit

and your SATA drives should appear as SCSI drives, IE: sda1 sda2 etc

The general concept is the same for other SATA drivers, just replace

modprobe ata_piix

with your appropriate driver name, such as

modprobe ahci

for example.

Other driver modules of note are:

sata_nv
sata_promise
sata_qstore
sata_sil
sata_sis
sata_svw
sata_sx4
sata_uli
sata_via
sata_vsc

depending on your computer's chipset. You need to use google to learn the type of chipset/driver combo is required for your SATA controller.

Or you can just modprobe them all one by one until you find the one that does not reply with a "no card found" error message or something like that.

Posted by Newbie on Nov. 30 2005,12:07

K i got the same problem.
Mine is a IDE 4.3gb hardrive , totally clean
I dont have a dev/hda .. so all the manuals dont help
I cant create a partion .. dont know what i am doing wrong