EDGY installation problem

Frank McCormick fmccormick at videotron.ca
Sun Sep 10 09:01:52 UTC 2006


On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:58:48 +1000
Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Frank McCormick wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 07:08:14PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >>>    Attempting to install EDGY (knot-2) on my other partition - I downloaded and
> >>> checked the alternate install ISO, but when it goes to the partitioner, it
> >>> insists my HD is SCSI (SDA1/SDA2 etc). Is this a known bug or is there something
> >>> I can pass on the command line to straighten it out ?
> >>>
> > 
> >   Its IDE...on a regular IDE controller which every other Ubuntu flavour
> > recognized as IDE. First time I've seen something like this. The partitioner
> > does recognize the EXT3 file system already on the two partitions, plus the
> > swap space, but it insists the two partitions are sda1 and sda2.
> 
> This was a bug/misfeature in the kernel we used on the knot-2 CDs.
> We've since reverted this change, however, so if you use knot-3 (or a
> recent daily), you should be okay.  In theory.


   OK thanks. We'll see how it goes.

-- 
Cheers

Frank





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