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Installing on Hard Disk with ThirdParty Utility Drivers
I am using a beige G3 300Mhz with LinuxPPC R5. Having previously had a successful installation on an internal SCSI harddisk, with Apple Disk Drivers thereon, I am now trying to install the same LinuxPPC R5 from CD onto an external SCSI disk, this one with third-party FWB "Hard Disk Toolkit" drivers. In MacOS I run Hard Disk Toolkit to create the volumes on the disk /dev/sda (a small shared volume, about 50mb swap and about 950mb root). (I have to use Hard Disk Toolkit to make the partitions because Drive Setup does not support the FWB Drivers).
Next I run pdisk as usual to create the UNIX partitions - no problem. But when I run the Xbased Linux installer and click to select my partitions, none of them are there! I then run pdisk -l from within a terminal window, and heyho! /dev/sda does not exist - no wonder the Xinstaller isn't seeing them. What i want to know is, is it the FWB drivers that are screwing things up? If so - what can I do about it - I know of no way of removing drivers and replacing them with Apple originals.

p.s. I don't understand why drivers are sitting on the device itself at all - with Linux are the drivers themselves not compiled into the kernel?
danzvash@yahoo.com

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