Any progress on installing FC7 on a SATA system?

[Karl Larsen]

Etanisla Lopez-Ortiz wrote:
> What I have:
> home-brew with 1 SATA hard drive and 1 SATA optical drive
>
> What I don't have:
> FC7 installed
> (even after trying "linux askmethod all-ide-generic nodmraid")
>
> It is my (flawed) understanding that the sata driver that FC7 uses on 
> install doesn't play nice with systems with multiple SATA devices, or 
> on systems with SATA/PATA devices. The last I read, was to install FC7 
> off a large (4G+) usb drive, a network install, an iso mounted on a 
> FAT32 partition, or onto the hard drive while connected to another 
> computer and then placing the drive back in the original computer and 
> praying it all works well.
>
> None of those options are available to me. Google keeps pointing me 
> back to the same Fedora Forum posts of which I have already summarized 
> above.
>
> Should I stick with my working FC6, or are there possibilities I 
> haven't run across yet?
>
    Just out of curiosity, how did you load FC6? It sounds as if you 
must have used one of those same methods you decline to use with F7?

Karl