Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)
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.
Sure it can. I just did it a couple of weeks ago.
Note that I did it using the latest Etch daily netinst ISO build,
not Sarge.
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