attn: Frank P. Southfield from Laurence Welt similar problem

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this is a rsponse or maybe a continuation to Franks question 

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>Subj:   No valid devices error...
>Date:  6/28/00 10:32:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>From:  fpsouthfield buyline net (Frank P. Southfield)
>Reply-to:  redhat-install-list redhat com
>To:    redhat-install-list redhat com ('redhat-install-list redhat com')
>
>Hello, I am new to Linux and was attempting to install RedHat 6.2 on a
>Windows 98 machine using the partitionless option. I had two issues: 
>1. The GUI installer would not load - after entering in country and
>language, the installation just died. 
>2. I attempted to install using the text installation, and received the
>following error: 
>No valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please
>check your hardware for the cause of this problem.' 
>The machine has ~15Gb of free space and has had no issues under 98. I
>defragmented the harddrive and ran scandisk as precautionary measures, but
>still nothing. Again, it doesn't even get to the point of attempting the
>installation. It give the error immediately after I choose the type of
>installation(i.e. workstation, server, or custom) and does it for both
>workstation options.  I also tried to install both 6.2 and 6.0 to see if
>there was any issue there, but again the same problem occurred.
>A friend suggested that I make sure to check the bios for LBA on the hard
>drives.  It was not originally set, but I changed that and still had the
>same issue.  Also, the hard drive was a single windows 98 partition, I
>created a 5Gb partition using fips, but this also had no affect.  It was
>also suggested that this could be the results of having an ATA 66 IDE
>Controller.  How do I tell if I have this and is there anything that I can
>do to get Linux to recognize the hard drive?
>Thanks in advance. 
>Frank 
>
>
>Frank Southfield
>Buyline.net Inc
 

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problem---------------------------------------

HP Pavillion 7125, Intel 133Mhz Pentium, Win 95, 16MB RAM,

1620MB HD, 830MB avail 750MB & 32MB chosen (partitionless install wanted),

 2 button PS2 mouse, I want to emulate 3 buttons _Problem_: The installation 

crashes at X Configuration window. The error messages are: install exited 

abnormaly, recieved signal 9, sending termination signals,

sending kill signals.....etc. My package contains two software advisories,

"If you are running an Intel or Intel comp micro in your sys.....etc. 
(30081)" and 

"Users running intel 810-based video chipsets or dell Perc2/sc raid 
contr...etc. 

(10684)" .  

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I'm a newbie. I am doing an a partitionless install from CD 6.2 . There are 
hints in errata that the boot disk must be updated but if I'm doing a CD 
install how do I update the boot disk before I install and why would this 
help me install from a CD.
 
I have never had a problem installing any software and my attempting to 
intervien usualy only makes things worse so I need some input from the 
experienced redhats before I attempt a fix.

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