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Answer» My PC has two SATA drives and zero IDE drives. One of the SATA drive has Windows XP on it and I would like to put Mandriva Linux on the other.
The problem is that during installation, it say it is unable to find a drive to install it in. What can I do?Use a distro that recognizes SATA drives. They are still QUITE new, and it will take a while to get wide acceptance in all distros. Mandrake/Mandriva will eventually.I´m also running SATA drives. GNU/Linux Suse from 9.1 over 9.2 to 9.3 have been smoothly installed on this system.
Running Knoppix 3.8/3.9/4.0 have no PROBLEMS with finding the SATA drives. Although I didn´t install a Knoppix or Debian ALIKE system on them.
I suggest to try a recent distro to install on your SATA drives.
You can install a GNU/Linux Suse system from ftp via the INTERNET if you WISH, or from almost any BSD-distro, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD. (No Linux, I know, but still very nice things.)
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