Re: Install Problems
On (01/02/05 02:55), Jason Wittenbach wrote:
> Hello, my name is Jason, and I recently discovered the wonderful world
> on UNIX computing. In light of this, I decided to make my desktop into
> a dual boot system with Windows XP and Debian. I'm having some problems
> though. My computer is a fairly new Dell complete with one SATA
> controlled hard drive and two PATA controlled cd/dvd rom drives. I
> downloaded the basic install file for Debian, figuring I could use my
> network to download/install the main components...but alas, I never got
> that far because the program cannot detect my hard drive. I think the
> problem lies somewhere in the fact that it's a SATA controller. Now I
> know next to nothing about UNIX systems (heck, that's why I want to get
> this installed!), but when the installer is loading, it display that hda
> and hdb are my two cd roms. Seems like a problem to me, but I have no
> clue how to go about fixing it. I don't have a floppy drive or the
> dirvers to load onto them for that matter (as far as I know). I tried a
> remodeled installer that was supposed to have SATA support, but that
> failed as well. I decided to try Fedora Core 3 instead (I know, I'm
> sorry), but I could only get that to work when I went in the BIOS and
> changed my raid setting to RAID/ATA otherwise...or something like
> that...the installer now worked, but Windows would not load. I'm
> completely at a loss, so any help you can offer would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks so much.
Hi Jason
Try the expert26 option when booting into the installer. This will give
you options to have SATA support during the install.
Regards
Clive
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