> Unfortunately I don't have that machine in front of me at the moment. > But I hope I remember it right that the CF card was detected in UDMA > mode. > > And I use a CF-IDE adapter, not a PCMCIA card or some other card > reader. So it *should* work as a plain IDE HDD. But for some reason > installer doesn't detect it... Does the installer or kernel display anything (easiest is probably to try the install in text mode and see what is on the other consoles at the point it prints the error message).