HELP! Yast cannot find partition

Hi, I am trying to install 7.1 on a beige G3 MT. I partitioned the hard disk by, hm what's the english name, "Laufwerke konfigurieren" everything looked fine. Then the computer starts quite normally into the installer but it can't find the device. I tried to partition the bl.. disk with pdisk and the installer of LinuxPPC. pdisk found the disk but afterwards yast didn't. The LinuxPPC installer failed completely. I'm rather desperate. I'd appreciate any idea. Thiemo -- root weiss, was er tut. Wicht weiss es nicht. Halb Wicht, halb root. Geht das gut? thiemo@gmx.ch