8.10 worked fine; 9.04 works great; 9.10... hum, will work ?
Hi everybody, I have just tried the Koala with the AMD64 live CD. First issue: no hard drive/partition available in Dolphin. With both 8.10 and 9.04 live CDs, I had/have immediate access to my internal SATA drives. When I check with fdisk, it detects them all right:
So I tried a mount with no success. First it says /dev/sdXX is neither in /etc/fstab nor in /etc/mtab. I'm used to edit fstab on my current configuration so I tried that just in case. But it just changes the mount error message to something like: super device does not exist.
Since the rest seemed to work, Internet, sound and various software; I launched the installation process anyway. But when it arrived to the disks configuration screen, the only thing it displayed was exactly (I have noted it ):
I have no RAID and I don't ask for it, it is deactivated in the BIOS. I used RAID1 when I was on WinXP (so much time seems to have pass...) but I don't need it anymore. I have read on another thread to try other options in the BIOS, in my case there are 3 options: Deactivated, AHCI (I think) and RAID. Tried the 3 options with no change in the Karmic installation process.
The only thing I can do is click New partition which warns me it will delete the data on the whole disk. But I just want to install Karmic on /dev/sdb1 where my current Jaunty is.
I have not a clue about what to try next, any ideas ? I don't mind to mess with my current Jaunty partition since I have done a backup of my partition with tar. The backup file is saved elsewhere, there is a backup of the backup and I have already used it so I know it works well. 8)
Also on another subject, I've noticed a slight improvement with the display configuration in Karmic: the menu shows the Multiple Monitors tab and it detects my 2 monitors. Unfortunately... :-X it refuses to set up an extended desktop. The option is there and I can select it but it just doesn't work. When I click on Identify Outputs, it displays on each screen:
So I suppose it will only work with the proprietary ATI drivers. (Not tested yet). My graphic card is an ATI HD4850.
Thanks for reading!
PS: added my full configuration in my signature.
Hi everybody, I have just tried the Koala with the AMD64 live CD. First issue: no hard drive/partition available in Dolphin. With both 8.10 and 9.04 live CDs, I had/have immediate access to my internal SATA drives. When I check with fdisk, it detects them all right:
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xad93ad93 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6527 52428096 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 6528 30401 191767905 5 Extended /dev/sda5 6528 30401 191767873+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe0e45a98 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 1958 15727603+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 1959 30401 228468397+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 1959 2480 4192933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb6 2481 6527 32507496 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 6528 30401 191767873+ 83 Linux
Since the rest seemed to work, Internet, sound and various software; I launched the installation process anyway. But when it arrived to the disks configuration screen, the only thing it displayed was exactly (I have noted it ):
Code:
Serial ATA RAID isw_dgagjfcigc_BootRAID1()-250.1 GB Linux device-mapper
I have no RAID and I don't ask for it, it is deactivated in the BIOS. I used RAID1 when I was on WinXP (so much time seems to have pass...) but I don't need it anymore. I have read on another thread to try other options in the BIOS, in my case there are 3 options: Deactivated, AHCI (I think) and RAID. Tried the 3 options with no change in the Karmic installation process.
The only thing I can do is click New partition which warns me it will delete the data on the whole disk. But I just want to install Karmic on /dev/sdb1 where my current Jaunty is.
I have not a clue about what to try next, any ideas ? I don't mind to mess with my current Jaunty partition since I have done a backup of my partition with tar. The backup file is saved elsewhere, there is a backup of the backup and I have already used it so I know it works well. 8)
Also on another subject, I've noticed a slight improvement with the display configuration in Karmic: the menu shows the Multiple Monitors tab and it detects my 2 monitors. Unfortunately... :-X it refuses to set up an extended desktop. The option is there and I can select it but it just doesn't work. When I click on Identify Outputs, it displays on each screen:
Code:
DVI-0 DVI-1
Thanks for reading!
PS: added my full configuration in my signature.
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