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Need help with Red Hat 9.0 on SATA HDD

Discussion in 'The Alternative OS' started by bradthegreat, Mar 9, 2006.

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  1. bradthegreat Newcomer, in training

    I just got a hold of the Red Hat Linux distro, so I decided to set up a dual boot with Windows XP. I have 2 SATA HD, 40 & 80GB. I installed Windows in half of the 40 and made the 80 a storage drive. They are both NTFS, but I left 20GB free and unformatted on the 40.
    When I boot with the Linux disk, it tells me that it cannot find any HDs on the system. It gives me the option to add a device driver with a disk, than gives me 2 options:

    fd0
    hda

    I am forced to pick one that the drivers would be on. I have a floppy with them on it. In XP, I press F6 and install the drivers. How do I get Linux to understand my HD and install itself in the empty space? Do I have to reformat as FAT32 to get it to work? thanks,

    ~BRAD
    bradthegreat, Mar 9, 2006
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  2. Mictlantecuhtli TS Special Forces

    The filesystem makes no difference, Red Hat 9 is just so old that it doesn't support SATA drives out of the box.

    You'd be better off with its successor, Fedora Core.
    Mictlantecuhtli, Mar 10, 2006
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  3. bradthegreat Newcomer, in training

    thanks, man. Someonce gave me a Mandriva distro, so I'm gonna give that a whirl. Red Hat was kindof just availible. Thanks.
    bradthegreat, Mar 10, 2006
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