using R4V2.

Cobbled a system together to mess with it.

P3 800
327 megs of ram
6 gig IDE primary (already partitioned / and swap)
20 gig IDE slave (partitioned linux, no label. storage drive)
9 gig SCSI (partitioned linux for ring buffer)
hauppage wintv
geforce2 64m AGP
SBlive

It boots but I have two problems.
if I go auto its totally wrong(tries to write 20gig part to the 6 gig drive)

if I go manual, when it comes time to partition it says

opened disk read-only - you have no permission to write

I hit enter and then

FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size
Press any key to exit cfdisk

Searches yield nothing

if I drop out to a different term I can run cfdisk no problem.

I don't see anything about this in the docs and I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

oh yeah....when I try to quit....I can't. I get stuck in a loop of would you like to quit? yes----->back to the partitioning menu

I have the same exact problem. SUffice it to say I'll be watching this thread diligently.

Exact same problem. Only similar thing I see is we both use GF2MX... seriously doubt that matters. You might have seen my thread, same topic.

Found a work-around for me, use a bigger hard drive and auto-install. Then chop it down to size, here my thread:

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1019

well regarding how you said the auto format on a 8gb hdd worked i grabbed my 17gb fujitsu (oh no) and when i tried to format i got that gay error, but i realised that i still had a copy of win98Lite on there so i tried deleting all the partions in Mandrake Move to no avail. Is there any new versions past 2003? Im tempted to go to windows Media center edition...,

17gb should've auto-installed... It was IDE0 right? My only other info was that the 8gb drive was WD ATA 100, the mobo was old VIA 266A (2000 BIOS), the 8gb previously had WinXP installed.

I had to use Ghost 8.0 (7.5/2003 will not work) to reduce the partitions down to my 3.8GB drive and it works fine.

On the 3.8GB I had the use FDISK /MBR (dos boot CD) and Partition magic to format to Ext2 entire capacity, then Ghost 8 worked fine. Just a guess, but I would FDISK /MBR and format the drive FAT32 style or something, then do the auto-install (i.e. remove every trace of linux).

I had the same problem with the drive opening as read-only. After much playing around I found that putting the boot cd in a different CD drive and attaching that to my setup fixed the problem. The CD drive I had been using was an old one that's been down in the basement for a couple years and it wouldn't surprise me if it is faulty.

So, my recommendation if you haven't found another workaround is to examine the possibility that nothing is wrong with the hd and check other hardware.

I am getting the same message on a spanking new box with a spanking new CD; so I don't think that is a problem. when I am going to command prompt (Ctrl-Alt-F2) I can run cfdisk and create partitions.

I have one SATA drive (/dev/hde) - maybe the program assumes /dev/sda or something else...

Once I create the partitions, I can continue the installation; however, after reboot I get another problem. Since it is unrelated to cfdisk - I'll start another post.

TIA

Simple solution.

You haven't hit space and selected your drive yet... the box [ ] next to your drive should look like [X] once it is selected.

Only thing is, the partitioning setup is very tricky. I ended up getting a "bad disk" that Partition Magic could not delete. had to manually install again, then delete all my partitioning and start again.

My advice: Get a bigger hard disk and go auto. even then it may give the good old non system disk crap and not boot anyway!!!


Mick

you are right, it was indeed missing X. Thanks a lot!

I guess it's time to repeat the weekly announcement... Ahem...
Please be warned that SATA drives are still problematic!
This isn't isolated to KnoppMyth or even to Linux. A friend who just built a gaming machine to run MS-Windows ran into a SATA related Catch-22 when he was installing the OS, it wouldn't recognize the SATA drive without a floppy with the special drivers on it and would accept no substitutes. Of course since he was trying to build a modern box he hadn't gotten a floppy for it and none of his other machines had one either...

Like I said, I am new to MythTv (including KnoppMyth) so I can't comment on problems that SATA drives may have there... However, I've had SATA drives on both MS and Linux systems (4 drives on 3 systems in the last year) without any problems. And yes, I don't have floppy, either. The drives usually come with a bootable CD that allow me to get everything working.

So, just a word form SATA fan here...