Hello! I have a big problem with my new computer because I can't install Linux on it. I've tried different distributions, old and new, but none of them seem to work. After I choose the language for the installation and for my keyboard it says that there is 'no CD/DVD devices found!'.

For example, I've tried with Fedora Core 5 and the error was like this: "No driver found. Unable to find any devies of the type needed for this installation type. Would you like to manually select your driver disk?"

Debian: "Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive.If so you can insert it and try again". But the cd was there.

openSUSE Alpha5 and Alpfa5, FreeBSD 6.01 give the same error.
Kubuntu 6.06.1 ends like this:
"Uncompressing Linux...ok, booting the kernel
[17179572.776000] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@50000000 for 000:01:00.0"

I don't know what's wrong. I'm currently using Windows XP. I managed to install FC5 with an usbdvdwriter, but my DVD-RW still doesn't work (neither the network card).
I have an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2,40GHz CPU
Intel Guardfish D965GFEKR M/B
512MB DDR2 RAM
Pioneer DVD-RW 111D
WD Caviar SE16 SATAII Hard-Disk
Intel 82566DM Gigabit Network adapter
Verto GEFORCE 7600GS PCI EXPRESS Videocard

If anyone can help me with this, I'll be garteful.

Intel 965, eh? Well then, I guess it really is the motherboard... I think. I've been having this exact same problem on my 965, and have been through two DVDRW drives - so I'm not sure if the mobo just has problems with IDE DVDRW in Linux, certain brands [I used BenQ and Philips], or any IDE optical drive in general [as I have not been able to try a regular CDROM or CDRW].

Try using this boot parameter, or variations of it:
linux irqprobe all-generic-ide acpi=off

It seemed to work for me with CentOS and almost with Knoppix [Knoppix was taking so long to boot with the parameter I just gave up]. It might work for you.

And yea, the onboard ethernet doesn't work. You should check out a PCI NIC card - you can find them cheap off of NewEgg for less than $10 [make sure it has a realtek chipset].

I am using almost the exact same setup. I used this same command during install of FC6 and it worked great.

Now I can't find my Sony DVD-RW drive after install. I cannot find where to mount it from.

Did anything work for you? Have any ideas?

Yea, I'm no longer using intel.

The problem is with the motherboard ide controller. Whether this is with the 965 chipset or just with the intel version motherboard I'm not sure.

If buying a new motherboard is too daunting, you could try using an ide card (example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...NE&N=0&Ntk=all) I have never used one of these before so I do not know if it would work, but if you cannot return your motherboard for a refund then there's really no harm in trying before you spend a good sum of cash on a new mobo.