[mythtv-users] Distro that will install to SATA

[Jarod Wilson]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 10:52, Andrew wrote:
> Ben Bargabus wrote:
> > Maybe I'm assuming too much by thinking that my SATA dvd drive is the
> > problem.  Are there other reasons why my DVD drive wouldn't mount during
> > install (I know that's a totally open ended question)?  I've working in
> > *nix environments for a long time but haven't done many installations,
> > can someone point me in the right direction to start troubleshooting
> > this thing?  In the meantime I'll download the latest debian testing
> > netinst image as suggested and see if that recognizes my sata DVD-RW
> > drive.
> > Thanks,
> > Ben.
>
> I pulled this Debian boot cd hoping for a newer kernel and it's wants to
> load modules from a floppy!!! I can't even get it up and running. I should
> have known with dino Debian.
>
> Try downloading the latest gentoo live CD and boot it up.  Then do a dmesg
> | less and look for you DVD drive.  The good thing about the gentoo live CD
> is that it loads about every module you can think of for SATA.

Fedora works quite nicely with just about any SATA device as well. No mucking 
around with drives getting set up as /dev/hdX, then switching to /dev/sdX 
either. It helps that Red Hat employs a few of the main folks working on SATA 
support. :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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