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Hi guys. I am busy installing SimplyMEPIS and I'm having trouble. I've booted it from the CD and now I'm trying to use "Install me" to install it onto my ...
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  1. 09-04-2005 #1
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    QTParted does not find my S-ATA HD

    Hi guys.

    I am busy installing SimplyMEPIS and I'm having trouble.

    I've booted it from the CD and now I'm trying to use "Install me" to install it onto my HD. But, there is no HD to choose from in the drop down menu. So I run QTParted, and I see one HD ("/dev/hdd/") but it's 700 MB so I figured that that must be the CD I'm booting from.
    So, it doesn't see my HD at all.

    I tried partitioning it using PQPMagic into 2 EXT3 partitions and one SWAP but it still doens't see it. Then I tried to partition it into one big FAT32 drive because I allready had that on my prev PC and that worked (I was able to create my partitions inside Mepis), but it still doesn't work.

    So now what, any things I might be forgetting?

    Thanks.
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    Do you see an icon for the hard drive on the desktop?

    And can we assume that when you don't have the cd in, the machine will still boot to that hard drive?
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    Quote Originally Posted by budman7
    Do you see an icon for the hard drive on the desktop?
    Yeah, but clicking it gives an "unable to mount" error
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    And can we assume that when you don't have the cd in, the machine will still boot to that hard drive?
    No, because it has no bootloader right?
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    budman7 wrote:
    And can we assume that when you don't have the cd in, the machine will still boot to that hard drive?
    No, because it has no bootloader right?
    Oops, I made an assumption that there was an OS already on the hard drive.
    A better question would be can you see the hard drive in the BIOS or bootup?
    And is it set to Auto? Instead of LVM or something else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by budman7
    Oops, I made an assumption that there was an OS already on the hard drive.
    A better question would be can you see the hard drive in the BIOS or bootup?
    And is it set to Auto? Instead of LVM or something else.
    Well it doesn't show up as an IDE device, which is normal since it is a S-ATA drive right?
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    There are 2 links on this page that come kind of close to what you need.
    http://www.mepis.org/forum/60?sort=a...62cbd270950b0a

    Not sure if they will help or not, as I am totally unfamiliar with installing on a sata.
    The first link is about megaraid, but he does have some useful info in there, and the second link is "mepis-sata install"
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    Thanks mate, haven't found it yet but this link might be helpfull.
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