Red hat unable to instal

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vinom - Jan 23, 2009 at 08:07 AM
 MikeThaJohn - May 26, 2010 at 09:10 AM
Hello, I am currently using windows xp on my laptop acer aspire 5315, i was trying to install linux red hat 9.0
but it gives me a warning that no hard drive(s) was detected yet I have a 80GB HDD. At first i tried using the command: linux noprobe, still it could not work. I also tried command:linux rescue. Pliz can you advice me on what to .
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Hi,

latest version of fedora is 10
latest version of mandriva is 2009
latest version of Ubuntu is : 8.10
Latest version of suse is : suse11

i advice you to install ubuntu or mandriva fedora also is a good one ,but me for a beginner i advise mandriva is simple and easy and also looks very good. ubuntu is perfect linux desktop , fedora also
so you have the choice : www.ubuntu.com , www.mandriva.com and fedoraprojects.com , you can see some linux beginners howtos at www.zinovskyhowtos.info.

Today tomorw Linux :)
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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,825
Jan 23, 2009 at 08:20 PM
Red Hat Linux 9 does not support SATA hard drives and was last updated in 2004. Why not use Ubuntu?
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Thanks for the reply,I would like someone to advice me on the latest versions of Ubuntu,Fedora, Debian and Suse. I will apreciate. I want to install either of then since red hat does not support Sata hard drives
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Sorry had forgoten something, what about red hat 10? does it support SATA drives or can we say all versions of red hat do not support SATA drives?
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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,825
Jan 24, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Red hat went commercial and spun off it's free distro to Fedora 10. You should go to the Fedora site for more info.
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In BIOS configure, something like IDE configuration, change the value from "Enhanced" to "Legacy", then a new one comes out below it, choose the value like "IDE0/2, PATA", save and reboot.

Now linux find the drive.
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then you partition the hard-drive correctly. try restarting the machine.
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