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Get the drivers from http://promise.com and read
carefully the readme.txt.
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Do exactly what they write in readme.txt until
you experience the first problems (they will come soon enough ;-)
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You will find out that SuSE setup found 3 hard disks: /dev/hda,
/dev/hde and /dev/sda or similar. This is wrong. You
should only see /dev/sda.
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Ignore this fact and install everything into /dev/sda.
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Then in boot options (SuSE setup), define user boot loader (don't use
lilo).
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Make your choices on software etc, setup keyboard, setup time,
all the normal stuff.
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Start setup.
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After copying all packages onto your harddrive, you may experience
setup saying: cannot write mbr .
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Now you have to leave the readme.txt path. Ignore this
error message and continue. You will fix that later.
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After completeing the setup as normal, you root into the
shell, mount your floppy, and start sh setup-ft.
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Check whether the kernel images are in /boot.
If they are not, /etc/lilo.conf will be missing too.
Install them from package k_deflt.
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If the kernel images are there, check lilo.conf. Check
the append lines for syntax errors (wrong tokens). Check the disk =
parameter, and if needed, change it to
/dev/sda.
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Install mbr to /dev/sda using the
lilo command (see man lilo how to do it).
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Using the lilo command, define the proper boot device
(/dev/sda)
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Run lilo
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Reboot - it should work now.
