<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Here ya go....</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>5 minutes....</span></font></div>
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<br><div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks! I tried network installation (using HTTP though), but the harddisk can't be recognized during the partitioning step. It seems to me this NFS network described in this article would have the same problem. <br>
<br>am I wrong in thinking this way? (i don't have a second linux to do the NFS install so I'm suspicious about whether i should really give this a try.)<br><br>It seems installing AHCI is the only way to go to me....<br>
<br><br>-Hui<br><br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>-Hui<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Yu-Hui Jin <<a href="mailto:yuhui.jin@gmail.com" target="_blank">yuhui.jin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,
Jason,<br><br>Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter,
but it was extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing
media page and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced
shutdown my box.<br><br>I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver
following this article: <br><a href="http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865" target="_blank">http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865</a><br><br>But
the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the minimum
requirements for installing this software. <br><br>It seemed that no trick has
worked yet... any new suggestion or advice? <br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>-Hui
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason <<a href="mailto:jason@jasonandjessi.com" target="_blank">jason@jasonandjessi.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">boot
with<br><br>linux all-generic-ide<br><br>or try to change your bios sata
emulation to ahci<br>
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<div><br>Yu-Hui Jin wrote:<br>> Hi, there,<br>><br>> I tried to
install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just bought,<br>> but
failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize<br>>
either the DVD nor the hard disk. Joseph from the community said it
is<br>> likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel
SATA<br>> controller (cmiiw).<br>><br>> Did anyone solve this
problem before? How did you do it?<br>><br>> Here's the related
configuration for my box:<br>> Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600
(2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core<br>> Technology and 8MB cache<br>> SATA
0: Samsung HD501LJ (500GB Serial ATA II Hard
Drive(7200RPM))<br>> SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S (16X
DVD+/-RW Drive)<br>><br>><br>> Many thanks!<br>><br>><br>>
regards,<br>> -Hui<br>><br>><br></div></div>>
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