[UCLA-LUG] Linux Installation Bug

[Justin Boseant]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 08:46:40PM -0700, n_nelson@pacbell.net wrote:
;
;Dear UCLA-LUG,
;
;The message is: An error has occurred - no valid devices
;were found on which to create new file systems. ...

i.e. could not find your hard disk....
;
;The computer is a new Dell, 700mhz, 20g drive, and should
;be Linux compatible--I used the same specs from their Linux
;computer page and discussed this with their sales agent.

Many new computers use AT66 and although linux has (beta) support, it isn't
available in the automated installation stuff yet (correct me if I'm wrong).
It requires a bit of thought and maybe someone else has hacked through it.  I'm
not the one to ask here, since I'd rather just stick with AT33, but I that
sounds like that might be your problem.  Same thing happened to my roomate last
night (BTW).  I just told him to switch it back to his AT33 slot (may not be
available on all motherboards though).

Good Luck

-justin