Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

[Bruno Buys <brunobuys@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote:
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> > 1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6
> > kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the
> > kernel. This is so because, under 2.6, SATA is seen as SCSI, and
> > somehow this makes the install program not see the IDE CD drive it is
> > being installed from.
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> Sure it can.  I just did it a couple of weeks ago.
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> Note that I did it using the latest Etch daily netinst ISO build,
> not Sarge.
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Yesterday I installed debian sarge with a netinst cd (from a ide dvdrom) 
on a sata disk (using the expert26 option, if it matters). The sata disk 
was recognized with no additional effort.