[mythtv-users] Distro that will install to SATA

Marco Nelissen marcone at xs4all.nl
Sat Feb 25 20:35:01 UTC 2006


>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.

The subject of your message says you want to install *to* SATA, but
from your description above it seems like you want to install *from*
SATA.
I've installed Gentoo to a SATA harddrive without problems, but that
was from an IDE CDROM.

Marco


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