Installer doesn't see SSD on Dell Mini 9 [SOLVED]

Legacy Netrunner 13.06
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I upgraded my Dell Mini 9 from the original 8 GB SSD to a 32 GB one. Booting a live session from a USB works fine. However, when trying to install, I get stopped on the second page, with the warning that the Mini doesn’t have at least 8.3 GB of disk space.:huh:

Using mount, fdisk -l, the My Computer shortcut, KDE Partition Manager, and file browsing through /dev all fail to show the SSD. My live USB stick is returned as /dev/sda, and there is no /dev/sdb, dev/sdc, etc.

I double checked that the SSD was physically installed correctly, and it appears to be–the notch in the SSDs pins is lined up with bracket on the mobo, and the other end of the SSD is screwed down correctly.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Hmm… in this case it would be helpful if you could confirm that the ssd is recognized within the bios. If not then you know whats wrong there. Otherwise please paste the output of the lspci terminal command.

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The BIOS shows Fixed HDD: None.

Here’s the output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
02:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
02:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

Appears I didn’t install the SSD correctly.

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Yeah it seems so.

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Turns out the new SSD is defective. RunCore packed a disk cloning enclosure, from which the old SSD can be recognized by the live session, but the new one can’t. Thanks for your help.

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I got a KingSpec SSD instead. I installed the SSD in seconds, and installed Netrunner 13.06 on it with no problems at all.