what am i missing ?

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Santhosh Joseph wrote:
> I downloaded all the 4 cd's of pld-ra and had it installed on my test 
> machine. I  was impressed by the distro and the amount of software that 
> came on the CD's.  Poldec is a great piece of software :)

Yes, we know that :)

> However, i had some problems when i tried to install the same cd set on
> another system. Hardware configuration
> 
> P III -500, Intel SE-440BX2 mother board and 20 GB HDD

Could you, please, send lspci -v to malekith at pld.org.pl ?

> Now, on booting from the CD, i could get the installer to proceed to the
> disk partitioning menu. Here the partition tool always complained that
> it cannot detect the partitions on my disk ! I beleive this is due to
> some problem with parted that pld uses for disk partitioning and i
> eneded up loosing all my partitions ! I have had problems with Knoppix
> Live CD as well and Knoppix would never detect the harddrive, and i
> think knoppix too uses gnu parted.
> 
> Why does pld use gnu parted instead of cfdisk or even the tradional
> fdisk ?

You can choice regular fdisk from installers main menu.

If it will work on your hardware - let us know.

> Is there anyway i can overcome this problem ?

Write to malekith at pld.org.pl

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