FC3 installation failure -- SATA problem?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:07:02AM +0000, Steve Sheldon wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> Remove all partitions from your sata drive usng fdisk & it'll work 
> fine.. it is a known problem..
> All the best
> Steve
> 
The only problem I see with the above is that as I understand it he
has FC4 also on the machine so he would be destroying that also.
> 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 (whereas 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
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Aaron Konstam
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