Re: Installer prompts for device driver

From: Rick Stevens <rstevens(at)internap.com>
Date: Tue Sep 11 2007 - 13:20:47 EDT

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 19:42 -0700, Tony Robbins wrote:
> Thanks, Rick. Here's the website for the specs:
> http://tinyurl.com/ywpz8q
>
> I'm attmpting to update the BIOS now, but not sure if that'll help.
> I'll check the settings as well.

Ah, it's an oldie! Ok.

Well, looking at those specs, the primary things I see are the size of the HDD (5GB is awfully damned small) and the maximum RAM (160MB is too small for a GUI-based install). You may be out of luck for an F7 install on that hardware. The minimum specs for F7 are:

Text install: 128MB and a 200MHz processor GUI install: 192MB and a 400MHz processor.

Customized installs can occupy as little as 90MB, 275MB for an "everything" install, and 9GB for all packages.

For a machine of that vintage and size, I'd recommend you install something like TinyLinux or one of the others from this list:

        http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/

Sorry about that!

>
> Rick Stevens <rstevens@internap.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 15:21 -0700, Tony Robbins wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm installing Fedora 7 on a Toshiba Tecra 750DVD directly
> from the
> > DVD (i.e. not Live). During install it stops with the
> message:
> >
> > No Driver found
> > Unable to find any devices of the type
> > needed for this installation type.
> > Would you like to manually select your
> > driver or use a driver disk?
> >
> > I've tried random drivers from the list, but none have
> worked so far.
> > Does anyone know where I can get a "driver disk" or the
> driver to put
> > on the disk?
>
> Uhm, hmmm. There's two possibilities. One is that the
> installer isn't
> recognizing your DVD drive properly (probably not likely). The
> second
> is that your hard drive is a on a SATA controller it doesn't
> recognize
> (more probably).
>
> Unfortunately, I can't find that model on Toshiba's website,
> so I don't
> know which chipset it uses (probably Intel). The first thing
> you should
> do is make sure you have the latest BIOS installed on the
> laptop.
> Second, try setting the SATA controller to "Legacy" mode in
> the BIOS and
> retry your installation. I can't guarantee if that'll fix it,
> but it's
> worth a try.
>
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