[clug-talk] Mandrake installation

[lewkor@telus.net]

Quoting D Bhardwaj <dbhardwaj at shaw.ca>: 
 
> Next I tried Suse 9.3,and it didn't even pick up the sata drives. Hmm. All 
> these worked on my old old hardware. 
> Any pointers? 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: D Bhardwaj <dbhardwaj at shaw.ca> 
> Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2005 3:04 pm 
> Subject: Mandrake installation 
>  
> > General question on installs: 
> > I have new hardware and my install fails because it can't even  
> > recognize the cd-rom even though it starts reading the CD, gets to  
> > the next screen after USB detection and fails on cd detection? 
> > I switched to ubuntu for the heck of it. It loads the os but  
> > doesn't recognize the nic or sound, maybe other devices I haven't  
> > checked yet. 
> >  
> > What is the general work around in this situation? 
> >  
> > Dharam  
 
I am an avid Debian user (I know, boo hiss...).  I just bought a board with 
the NForce3 chipset on it and I have serial ATA drives on it.  When I 
installed I got Dan Graham to help me with the install.  What we needed to do 
is get the 2.6.12 kernel and that had the drivers for the SATA chip my 
motherboard uses.  If we used an earlier kernel, the DVD would boot the 
install CD but it would not see any devices to install.