Re: Any progress on installing FC7 on a SATA system?

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>What I have:
>home-brew with 1 SATA hard drive and 1 SATA optical drive
>
>What I don't have:
>FC7 installed
>(even after trying "linux askmethod all-ide-generic nodmraid")
>
>It is my (flawed) understanding that the sata driver that FC7 uses on 
>install doesn't play nice with systems with multiple SATA devices, or on 
>systems with SATA/PATA devices. The last I read, was to install FC7 off 
>a large (4G+) usb drive, a network install, an iso mounted on a FAT32 
>partition, or onto the hard drive while connected to another computer 
>and then placing the drive back in the original computer and praying it 
>all works well.
>
>None of those options are available to me. Google keeps pointing me back 
>to the same Fedora Forum posts of which I have already summarized above.
>
>Should I stick with my working FC6, or are there possibilities I haven't 
>run across yet?

I installed F7 live on my two SATA drive Dell.  I have XP on the 
first drive however.  What I can't get it to do is install on my 
older dell PIIIs.

-- 
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...



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