Fedora Installation Does not see Hard Disk drives

[vipin sagar]

Is that FC - (1 to 5) ?
Have ya gotta scsi /SATA HDD ?
Check ya BIOS, whether it has configured for any of the Hardware RAID
(1, 01, 10 etc..)

cross check SystemTools ->> Hardware Browser
df -h
fdisk  -l  /dev/< >

Guess ya are not using hp's smart arrai 6i ....

Good Luck

On 5/2/06, Russell Harrison <rtlm10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try booting fedora in rescue mode.  At the first screen when you boot the cd
> type "rescue" and hit enter.  This will boot a text based single user mode
> for you to look around.  You should be able to see your drives there, and
> you can get more information to give the list to help you out.
>
> It sounds like your setting up this system for a production use.  Fedora is
> an experimental distro and I wouldn't recommend it for something you can't
> take fairly frequent downtime on.  FC5 has had what 80 - 90+ updates in the
> last month?  Doesn't bother me on my personal stuff, since its to be
> expected when you run bleeding edge (or close to it) stuff.  I'd be a little
> uncomfortable explaining that to my CEO when he can't get to his mail.
>
> Instead I would recommend either biting the bullet and purchasing a RH
> Enterprise licence or installing CentOS which is built from the same source
> code as RHEL.  They'll be stable versions of the code for each package, and
> are used in enterprise environments.
>
> If you do decide to continue down the fedora path you'll want to take your
> questions to the fedora users list: fedora-list at redhat.com.  They'll be
> better able to help you there.  This list is more focused towards Red Hat's
> commercial releases.
>
> Good luck!
>
> On 5/2/06, Roger <roger at mirasol.co.za> wrote:
> >
> > Hello forum
> >
> > We have recently procured an Intel Server to use as a mail and web
> > server.I would like to run it using Fedora Core Linux. I have a bit of a
> > problem.
> >
> > I am trying to install Fedora OS but it refuses to go through with the
> > installation because it says that it cannot find any drives on which to
> > install the Operating System.
> >
> > If i start up the server using DOS, i can see the two hard disk drives.
> >
> > The disks are two 80 GIG disks.
> >
> > Is there something that i am missing when setting up the server.
> >
> > Has anyone experienced any problem like this or can someone please offer
> > me a solution.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Roger
> >
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