Instalation help

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Instalation help
started by: Number 3

Posted by Number 3 on Feb. 18 2006,07:48

I should post this in the install help section but it doesn’t exist.. here we go...

I am trying to install DSL on a Intel Dual core 2.8 machine.. Motherboard is d945gnt, 1 gig of ram, 4 Seagate SATA 250gb drives.

I can load the OS on a CD no problems but i want it on a HDD. The drives are not recognized. I can see them when i start the XP install however that defeats the purpose of Linux.

Please advise if there are any instructions on this for TRUE sata installs. These drives are brand new and never touched a windows system.

I am a developer new to Linux, i normally have no problems with this type of situation however i find all documentation lacking

please advise.. I am willing pay for a Linux system to save time

#3

Posted by doobit on Feb. 18 2006,14:46

If you press F3 after boot you will see the boot option for SATA drives.
Then you should be able to do an install to the drive from the apps/ tools menu once you are in X.

I'm curious as to why you want to use DSL when you have such a powerful system.

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 19 2006,04:02

Make sure that you download this specific DSL version:

dsl 2.1b iso

NOT the latest 2.2 version.

DSL 2.1b has SATA support. Boot with this:

dsl sata

at the boot prompt.

Posted by puresilver on Feb. 25 2006,07:14

Quote (doobit @ Feb. 18 2006,09:46)

I'm curious as to why you want to use DSL when you have such a powerful system.

I have an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ w/ 1GB of PC3200, ATI 9800 Pro and 4 X 160GB Seagate SATAII drives. Kinda powerful but I really like DSL. I have always preferred Fluxbox (on Slackware), and Sylpheed is the perfect email news reader. I do have my differences with DSL. I think the goal of a 50MB OS is a little silly given that even PDA's now have 200MB of memory plus removeable media accesses.