<div id="RTEContent">Thanks, Steve, for your kind reply. But could you please explain how to use fdisk to remove all partitions? I have a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on another partition. Thanks, in advance. --peter Steve Sheldon <steve.sheldon@solidlinux.co.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi Peter, Remove all partitions from your sata drive usng fdisk & it'll work fine.. it is a known problem.. All the best Steve peter wu wrote: > Thanks for your kind reply. (I think Aaron's e-mail was sent to only > me, so I am repeating.) > > It's weird... I initially had FC3 INSTALLED on my computer with SATA > drive. But since partition table got hosed, I wiped out the hard > drive, and installed FC4. Now, a program that I use doesn't run > correctly on FC4 (wherea! s it runs cleanly on FC3), so I wanted to > install FC3 back again. But this time it doesn't even install. > > Thanks for your help, in advance. > > --peter > > P.S. I think I was a much better person before I met Linux and > dual-booting and partitioning... > > */akonstam@trinity.edu/* wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:52:22PM -0800, peter wu wrote: > > Yes. It's Dell Dimension 8400 with SATA. > > > > --peter > Well someone correct me if I am wrong. The! handling of SATA drives is > a way FC3 differs from FC4. Or to put it another way it would not > surprise me that FC4 could recognize your drives and FC3 cannot. Just > a thought. > > > > akonstam@trinity.edu wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:28:22AM > -0800, peter wu wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > ! > > When I try to install FC3, I get the warning, "No hard drives > have been found. You probably need to manually choose device > drivers for the installation to succeed. Would you like to select > drivers now?" If I choose a device, or just go ahead with > installation, I get to Disk Partitioning Setup. When I ask for > automatic partitioning, I get this message: "No Drives Found: An > error has occurred. No valid devices were found on which to create > new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this > problem." Then installation fails. > > > > > > My question is: I already have FC4, but why FC3 installation > would not recognize hard ! drive and how can I resolve this? (I > want to install FC3 because one program is not forward-compatible. > Please don't say "Use FC4.") > > > > > > Tha! nks for your help, in advance. > > > > > > --peter > > What kind of drives are these. SATA drives maybe? > > -- > > > > > ======================================================================= > > ... bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ... > > ------------------------------------------- > > Aaron Konstam > > Computer Science > > Trinity University > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@redhat.com > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > -- > &! gt; ======================================================================= > Many of the convicted thieves Parker has met began their > life of crime after taking college Computer Science courses. > -- Roger Rapoport, "Programs for Plunder", Omni, March 1981 > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > <http: //pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt="36035/*http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/"> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </http:></blockquote> </div> <hr size=1> <a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/">Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.</a>