Re: FC3 installation failure -- SATA problem?

Hi Peter,

All the best
Steve

peter wu wrote:

Thanks for your kind reply. (I think Aaron's e-mail was sent to only me, so I am repeating.)

It's weird... I initially had FC3 INSTALLED on my computer with SATA drive. But since partition table got hosed, I wiped out the hard drive, and installed FC4. Now, a program that I use doesn't run correctly on FC4 (whereas it runs cleanly on FC3), so I wanted to install FC3 back again. But this time it doesn't even install.

Thanks for your help, in advance.

--peter

P.S. I think I was a much better person before I met Linux and dual-booting and partitioning...

*/akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx/* wrote:

    On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:52:22PM -0800, peter wu wrote:
    > Yes. It's Dell Dimension 8400 with SATA.
    >
    > --peter
    Well someone correct me if I am wrong. The! handling of SATA drives is
    a way FC3 differs from FC4. Or to put it another way it would not
    surprise me that FC4 could recognize your drives and FC3 cannot. Just
    a thought.
    >
    > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:28:22AM
    -0800, peter wu wrote:
    > > Hi, all,
    > >
    > > When I try to install FC3, I get the warning, "No hard drives
    have been found. You probably need to manually choose device
    drivers for the installation to succeed. Would you like to select
    drivers now?" If I choose a device, or just go ahead with
    installation, I get to Disk Partitioning Setup. When I ask for
    automatic partitioning, I get this message: "No Drives Found: An
    error has occurred. No valid devices were found on which to create
    new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this
    problem." Then installation fails.
    > >
    > > My question is: I already have FC4, but why FC3 installation
    would not recognize hard ! drive and how can I resolve this? (I
    want to install FC3 because one program is not forward-compatible.
    Please don't say "Use FC4.")
    > >
    > > Thanks for your help, in advance.
    > >
    > > --peter
    > What kind of drives are these. SATA drives maybe?
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