Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/20/05

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:04:56 -0500

    On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote:
    > marc wrote:
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    > 1) Debian can not be installed on a SATA HD from scratch with a 2.6
    > kernel. Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the
    > kernel. This is so because, under 2.6, SATA is seen as SCSI, and
    > somehow this makes the install program not see the IDE CD drive it is
    > being installed from.

    Sure it can. I just did it a couple of weeks ago.

    Note that I did it using the latest Etch daily netinst ISO build,
    not Sarge. 

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