Installing on system with SCSI (no IDE)

LostInGentoo

Hi

I tried booting the Gentoo 1.4 stage 1 livecd at a computer with aic7xxx controller installed (Adaptec 29160). There are only a SCSI-based CD-ROM drive and a SCSI based harddisk. This results in an error, not capable of mounting the cdrom-drive. This means I get no possibility installing at all.

I tried to use this parameter
gentoo doscsi

but it just stops loading when trying to test for aic7xxxold driver.

Please help me out. I have a couple of machines to install - all making me trouble.

Thanks
Preben

hielvc · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject:

You might try the knoppix boot floppy method. Just do a search in "Forum: Documentation, tips and tricks" for knoppix or look at the Alternative Installation Guide

hielvc

LostInGentoo · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject:

Well, I don't like it that way, but hey maybe that's the only way.

But what bothers me is, that I had no trouble installing at that machine when gentoo 1.2 was released. So Gentoo 1.2 can be installed without any problem, but not 1.4

Promit · Guru Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 344

That's odd, because my system has an IDE HDD, an IDE CD-ROM, and a SCSI CD-Rom. The only one the LiveCD didn't pick up was the IDE CD-ROM. But the SCSI worked perfectly...
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hielvc · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:21 pm Post subject:

Then use the 1.2 cd. Download a newer stage tarball or not when you "emerge rsync" youll bootstrap the lates stuff.

hielvc