Chingkhei

I tried to install RedHat Linux 9 yesterday... But, after the first few GUI screen where it prompt to select Mouse, Language etc... it gave an error that it could not Detect any Hard Disk ;( . Below is my system Configuration: P4 2.6 HT Intel 865 GBF motherboard ( sound Inbuilt ) 512MB DDR400 128MB ATI radeon 9600 Pro AGP 80 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 ( SATA ) HDD I have the following Partition on my HDD [Primary Partition] c: 8GB NTFS ( WinXP installed ) --free space -- 7 GB ( thought of Installing Linux there ) [Extended Partition n Logical Drives] d: 25 GB NTFS ( windows Programs Installed there ) e: 25 GB NTFS ( work Files etc ) f: 14-15 GB NTFS ( backup partition ) If anybody as any Idea about my problem please help me out... regards, Thanks...

thanks Danleff.... . Your information seems to be all I need to get me start off with Mandrake 10. About installing LILO/GRUB in a floppy, can u give me a hint how it's done.. sorry for being too ignorant.. haven't opened my eyes on linux yet... am a complete newbie. I seem to have another question... Say, by default linux create 3 partitions [/boot], [swap], and [/] and as far as I guess all the programs are installed in [/]. But lets say, I want to have another data partition say [/home] where I'll be saving all my works... now the problem is how to work this out.. coz' linux will by default create the folder [home] inside [/]. And even if I create another partition [/home] hoe do I get Linux use my partition as its [home] and not the default one.. sorry for being so.. idiot. your help will clear many doubt's in my mind about the working of linux. regards, chingkhei...

Well... i'll try out Mandrake 10 for now and wait fr the new releases... I have few question rearding my installation... I am listing the procedure i am likely to follow.. please let me know if this will work... my XP is in the Primary Partition... and have an extended partition with 3 logical drives all NTFS. I have around 7 GB free diskspace... I am planning to install Linux there. I'll set the [/], [/swap],[/boot] in that 7GB space... ( A question here is should I add them to the extended or create another primary partition for [/boot]? ) Then about GRUB/LILO I am thinking of installing to the [/boot] and not MBR... ( the question here is will i be able to run Linux using multiple boot thirdparty software available. and which are the compatible boot software in market? ) regards, Chingkhei

My problem is... can't afford another PATA drive atleast for another few months. I have to get along with my SATA drive. Well, for me I hope I have to lay down the hope of installing Red Hat 9. Well, is there any Linux Distrubution which support SATA... please let me know... I'll try to go for the one that works.. regards, Chingkhei