Error installing FC6 x86_64

Doctor Who whodoctor at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 01:56:45 UTC 2007


On 1/2/07, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/2/07, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Doctor Who wrote:
> > > I'm trying to install FC6 on an Intel Core 2 Duo machine (Intel
> > > DG965SS motherboard) with 2 500GB SATA drives. These drives are not
> > > setup for RAID.  The box also has 2 IDE DVD drives as well.
> > >
> > > The install fails early on with the error "Unable to find any devices
> > > of the type needed for installation of this type. Would you like to
> > > manually select a driver or use a driver disk?"
> > >
> > > I've successfully installed both Winblows and other Linux flavors on
> > > the machine.
> > >
> > > Is this a known issue?  If so, what is the workaround?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Add "all-generic-ide" when you start up the cd.
> >
>
> Tried that and got the same result :-(
>

At the install prompt I typed 'linux all-generic-ide' and I get the
same error as before.  Does this make the installer see the disks as
PATA vs. SATA?




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