Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] BDI-4.20 Software Installation

nwlinfo wrote:

>Greetings, I am having difficulties with the installation process
>for EMC/Debian combo (BDI-4.20) on a 5 yr old P3 w/ 512MB ram. The
>hard disk (about 8 GB) has been reformated and there should be no
>partitions. From what I can tell, my downloaded copy from
>www.wildrice.com/emc is probably okay (because checksum matches),
>and the CD initially boots. When the initial screen loads, I hit
>enter to continue. After a couple minutes into the installation, a
>dialog box warns that the hard disk drive cannot be found. I
>believe a driver was automatically loaded a little earlier during
>the installation (aic-7xxx driver), but it must be causing some
>problem. The computer has an Adaptec AIC-7899 SCSI controller.
>
>

Is SCSI supported on the 4.xx BDI's? I know it was NOT supported
on earlier BDI versions. This aic7xxx driver may be loading, but it
may not be a driver acceptable for the OS disk.

Do you ever get to the create partitions screen? (I'm guessing it is
getting stuck just before that point. There may be a tricky command
option that will allow you to tell it that a SCSI hard drive will be used
instead of IDE.)

Jon