On Monday 14 March 2005 07:56 pm, you wrote: > I purchased, last weekend, new kit including a Gigabyte GA-K8NS > motherboard, Athlon 64 2800+ processor, and a Seagate 80G sata drive. > > The dvd iso has an unusable version of kernel and drivers. It will not deal > with the sata drive. I mounted a 14 year old, 8.0G pata drive, and did a > preliminary install. When I upgraded to a later kernel, then I could find > the sata drive [only as /dev/sda, rather than /dev/hde]. I took root, > fdisk'd, mkfs'd, and mounted the drive without incident. > > I am looking for one of two bits of information: One, how would I modify > the first iso image of the set so that I can do a proper install to the > sata drive. Or two, what is involved in transferring the running > installation to the sata drive from the creaky, slow, old ide drive upon > which it now resides. > > Thanks in advance. Any insight would be appreciated. > > -Jpearson Is this a bad description? Is this the wrong list upon which to post this kind of question? Where might the right list be? I have spent the last 2 days - RTFM'ing, googling, pushing, poking, and prodding with little to show for the effort. I would like to bring up this computer with a Fedora Core 3 installation. If there is no way, then fine. But if there is a chance... If there might be a way to create an updated iso, or in some other way make this work, I would be thankful for any advice. -jp
