installation issue: "No partitionable media were found"

[Asirvatham Kripps <dakripps@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I just bought a Dell poweredge SC-420 system with a 80
GB SATA hard drive. When trying to install Debian
linux, I get a message saying "no partitionable media
found".


I called Dell support and they say that Debian linux
doesn't support the hard drive and Red Hat Enterprise
version does. I hope this is not true :-(


Does anyone have more information on support for
Debian for Dell poweredge SC-420 SATA hard drive?

I don't have a second hard drive and also tried
disabling RAID in the "setup".

Thanks,
Kripps/-