SCSI Parameters Pb

[Tuxy28]

hiyya,

i am trying to install Linux mandrake 9.1 on my computer and from a floppy disk that i've made using rawwriter or something and then system asks me to choose among a list of drivers to be able to gain access to scsi devices on my computer. The thing is i try to rerun the installation in expert mode so that it allows me to avoid the problem, which does not work, and still, before that, i've tried launching the installation in all different modes and it still keeps asking me to choose among a list and hence, once i've finally selected one the drivers listed which names do not correspond anyway to what i have in use on my computer, it appears a dialog box asking me to enter the selected drivers parameters for kernel... i've looked in search engines to see if i could possibly get hold of such a type of information, i did find a list though but none of which would help me, ...
well, has anyone got some helpfull information on this, or anything to sort me out?

Thks!

Tuxy28

[JohnT]

To begin with, if your not sure of what you need to do during an install, do not choose "expert". At this level you will make all choices and are expected to know your system inimately. Having said that, what scsi devices do you have on your computer?

Here is analternative help source for MDK....while you wait for an answer here.


HERE (http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php)

[Tuxy28]

thanks for answering so quickly,

well, quite franckly i wouldn't choose the expert unless i have some damned good reasons to do so either but in the help section it sais that it was the only way to have the scsi step avoided.
Anyway, when i go check into config panel , system, etc... it says that i have (well connected and working) PrecSim SCSI Controller and well it gets me the feeling suddenly that i could be a little mistaken here thinking that i do have external scsi devices in use, because this could be different, ain't it... well i wish you could confirm it, but then what if i still get the same pb, because i've tried to launch installation using different kinds of raw written floppy disks, different kind of modes as well, and i always get the same pb that mandrake, apparently, doesn't automatically find the devices it is looking for, well,
hope this helps, i am still wandering thru the link you've givven me,

thanks for your help

Tux28

[JohnT]

Anyway, when i go check into config panel , system, etc... it says that i have (well connected and working) PrecSim SCSI Controller and well it gets me the feeling suddenly that i could be a little mistaken here thinking that i do have external scsi devices in use, because this could be different, ain't it... well i wish you could confirm it, but then what if i still get the same pb

You would know better than I if you have external scsi devices. They are either "in" your case, or they are not. If they are not then they are external. What is your meaning of "pb"? You would probably get better results if it's possible to boot from a cd rather than floppy. Is the harddrive already formatted for linux? Have you done partitoning yet?