Hello everyone,

I've dugout some old Asus eeePc 4G surf with 4GB SSD disk and wanted to try to install antix 16 on it. Managed somehow to boot install ISO from SD card (syslinux complained something (gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R image), but after pressing tab and typing"live" booted ok eventually) and it seems to work just fine. It recognized internal wifi card and two other USB ones that I've tried (important because I just want to make a wifi repeater out of it).

Now when I wanted to install it to internal HD it seems that install utility doesn't recognize its hard drive. I've started gparted from it and it has found the drive correctly (4GB /dev/sda ) and I've put single full disk partition on it ext4, but the install utility still doesn't see it.

Then I put some random USB flash 8GB in that eeepc and install utility recognized it correctly and probably was able to install on it. Can someone point me in right direction, what could be the problem here, why doesn't it see the drive?

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but I guess that this is a regular old SSD drive because the booted kernel sees it just fine and gparted worked with it nicely so it's probably something else.

As a last resort, I can always install it on SD card (or USB) that is visible by the install utility, but it really would be nice to have it on internal drive __{{emoticon}}__

The installer on the iso allows for upwards of 4GB so you can try this deb (if using 32 bit iso) when running live.


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You could also use the cli-installer. (Just type cli-installer in a root terminal)

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anticapitalista wrote:The installer on the iso allows for upwards of 4GB so you can try this deb (if using 32 bit iso) when running live.


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You could also use the cli-installer. (Just type cli-installer in a root terminal)

Great, I'll try that and report the results.

Thanks

......& if you still can't get it to install - partition & format the drive first, (running live), then try installing.

(I had to do this at one time, with one of the images, so it may work for you.)