HD Install :: Ancient SCSI HD Install

Did you try fdisk -l ?
You could also check dmesg for possible errors.

I checksed fdisk -l but not dmesg.
I'll check that soon.

At least one onf the hard drives were damaged.
Now I replaced it with another one. (Lost 10Gb.)
Let's see if I get those three working...

EDIT: I still need to set jumpers to these new drives to setup SCSI termination. I'ts very late and I'll go to sleep. Maybe tomorrow.

Problem solved.
There was one broken disk and one disk in an old SCSI bus that needs to be terminated manually.

I managed to make this work with DSL 3.2 a few weeks ago so I thought I'd complete the post just to let others know it is possible.

Hardware: HP Kayak XU, 267Mhz Pentium II, 512MB RAM, 9GB+36GB scsi hd, floppy, ide cd (no longer bootable), scsi cd, scsi dvd, Matrox Millenium II agp graphics, Soundblaster 128 pci, HP built-in ethernet.

1. Since the machine will no longer boot from cd, I managed to boot from a floppy and use the "fromusb" option to continue the boot from a usb stick (sda1 - this is important, see step 5).

2. W2K boots from the 9GB hd, so I used ntfsprogs to shrink the single ntfs partition on the 36GB hd to 25GB - see http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=16815

3. I created 1GB ext2 swap, 2GB ext2 bootable and 8GB ext2 partitions in the space freed up on the 36GB hd which became sdc2, sdc3 & sdc4

4. Using a modified frugal_lilo script - see http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=17087 - I created a frugal lilo boot file on sdc3

5. At this point sda1=usb stick, sdb1=W2K boot drive, sdc1=ntfs partition, sdc2=linux swap, sdc3=lilo boot partition, sdc4=linux partition but to boot from the lilo boot partition, the usb stick will be removed, so sdc3 becomes sdb3 on reboot - so I changed fromhd=/dev/sdc3 to sdb3 in lilo.conf

6. Finally, I changed the BIOS setting for which hd to boot from to the 36GB hd and it worked.

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