Thanks. Here is the output. I think it only detected my internal hard drive. 23 : IDE 00.0: 10600 Disk [Created at block 1879] Unique ID _ l_yX.CrcWLmRXhv4 Parent ID : +Y+h.8FWzq0ee8eI Sys FS ID: /block/hda Sys FS Bus ID : 0.0 Sys FS Device Link : /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.1/ide0/0.0 Hardware class: disk Model: HTS726060M9AT00 Device : " Revision: MH40A68A Serial ID : MRH403M4GP50AB Drive: "VIA_IDE", "ide-disk" Device File: /dev/hda Device No.: block 3:0-3:63 BIOS ID :0x80 Geometry(Physical) : CHS 16383/16/63 Geometry(Logical) : " Size: 117210240 sectors a 512 bytes Cache: 7877 kb Config status : cfs=new,avial=yes,need=noactive=unknown Attached to: #15(IDE interface) That's it. Jaydeep Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jaydeep Majumder <jaydeep.majumder@helsinki.fi> writes:
Hi Andreas,
I have a näive question. How can I get to the command line option? I got the Yast's graphical interface. The option I chose : 'Installation' with boot: noapic.
Just switch consoles with e.g. Ctrl+Alt-F5. There should be a root console on F5,
Andreas
Jaydeep
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jaydeep Majumder <jaydeep.majumder@helsinki.fi> writes:
Encouraged with it, I booted the suse 9.2 DVD with 'noapic' option. This time I had no problem and Yast's graphical environment started quickly. But I found that the external disc is not detected. The only option I am left with is to partition my internal HD. This may have to do with the kernel. It loads the external HD as a removable USB device and apparently I can not install the OS there.
What's the output of "hwinfo --disk" at this point?
Andreas
Andreas