Re: Help with Installing Linux on a NEC PC 9821V12 machine.

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

Hi 

I managed to find a copy of Palmo98 on CD and tried to put it on this
machine.  First I copied the boot image from the CD to a floppy.  I
booted the floppy and eventually got a shell to work in.  Not having any
file system on it except the windows partition I tried to delete this
and create an ext2 filesystem with

fdisk98

but got the error

open failed: no such device /dev/hda

I tried this trying /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, ...../dev/hdf in a vain hope it
might find something....but no success :(

Does this mean that linux is not detecting my Harddrive at all?  
I think it is detecting the cdrom since there are a swag of commands in 
/sbin

which are not on the boot floppy.
Any thoughts on how I can make it see the harddrive.  The harddrive can
be seen if I boot the system with a windows disk.


Cheers

Tony


>To: <tlug@example.com>
>Subject: Re: Help with Installing Linux on a NEC PC 9821V12 machine. 
>From: "pietro zuco" <pietrozuco@example.com> 
>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:03:43 +0100 
>
>     I had the same problem with the pc of my girl friend. It's a nec-pc98.
>     I coud access the bios by pressing the key HELP when it start, but I don't
>     know if this key is in all the nec computers.
>     I wanted to install windows 98 japanese but I coundn't because it's a
>     different architercture. I tried to find some patch, (like AMD) in the
>     microsoft page but I coudn't, but meybe there are.>
>
>    Bye
>     Pietro.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: "Antony Stace" <antony@example.com>
>     To: <tlug@example.com>
>     Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 2:10 AM
>     Subject: Help with Installing Linux on a NEC PC 9821V12 machine.


     > Hi
     >
     > I have been trying to install Linux on a NEC PC-9821V12 without
     > much success.
     >
     > The machine came with a copy of Japanese Windows 95 on it.  While
this
     > was on the machine I made a floppy boot disk using Windows 95 and
copied
     > the
     > appropriate drivers onto it to get the CDROM working if I needed
it.  I
     > then proceeded to format the harddrive.
     > After doing this
     > I tried to boot the machine with a boot disk with the boot image
from a
     > Redhat
     > 6.0 disk, no luck, the machine just spun the floppy a few times
and then
     > left me with a black screen.  I then tried to boot with a English
     > Windows
     > 95 boot disk, again same thing.
     >
     > The boot disk which I made with Japanese Windows 95 does work. 
However
     > I tried to install an English version of Windows 95 on it,  I
changed to
     > the
     > CDROM and typed in setup, nothing happened, the setup program
doesn't
     > seem to
     > run, if I try and install the Japanese version of Windows 95 it
does
     > work.
     >
     > The other thing which I cannot work out is that there does not
seem to
     > be
     > any BIOS program that the user can use.  When it boots it simply
     > displays a
     > memory test to the screen and then tries to boot the floppy
followed by
     > the
     > Hard drive in that order.
     >
     >
     > Can someone please tell me whats going on and how I can install
linux on
     > this
     > machine.
     >
     > Any help appreciated
     >
     > Cheers
     >
     > Tony
     >
     >
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