when i tried to install fc5. the anaconda installer said that my partions are unreadable & asked if i should erase whole hdd.
here is my outpu of "fdisk -l"
i have a single 80gb sata hdd,msi-k8mm-v,amd athlon 64 3000+,256 ram(64mb for shared gfx).first i was using ubuntu 5.10 then tried 6.06. 5.10 worked great for me but 6.06 gave the same error like this one. so i suspect there is some thing wrong with the new sata drivers from via(via-kbmm-v chipset).so i dicided to do some R&D with it. tried installing windows xp with sp2 which has the sata drivers inbuilt.it too failed.now downlaod latest drivers(ver 5.30c) from via's site still noting. so tried installing older version drivers(Ver - 4.20a) and worked http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...lies/smile.gif

so i want any way that i can use older version of drivers.also from where should i get those drivers b'cos at via site only gfx drivers are available for fc5.i used ask method for installing

regards,
gary

I doubt drivers are an issue. More likely the brain-dead installers (particularly FC5) can't handle the fact that you have no primary partition(s) available for use.
As Tink said in your other thread, this is a (very) unusual setup - not invalid, just unusual.

what u suggest me to do??

Sorry, I didn't read your first post closely enough. You say you used the old driver and it worked - worked with what ??.
I'm not at all surprised XP failed to install.

And what errors did you get with each software ???. Did the Ubuntu (6.06) fail recognising the disk, or later in the partitioning stage.
How did you produce the fdisk listing above - i.e. what distro did you use ???.

With a bit more info we might be able to get you going without trashing your current setup too much.

so lets go in the details.i will start when i first when i got my replaced hdd from seagate under warranty.that time the person who i had given the hdd to take it to seagate had made three drives.

c:empty
d:data partion so no os(27gb)
e:data partion so no os(27gb)

also he told me that my sata port on my mobo is not working. so i have to get a new pata hdd.i got back my pc from. now following the golden rule for dual boot win-lin system first i tried to install windows xp. for it downloaded the latest sata drivers(5.0c) from via's site.

made a driver disk out of it.now booted in from cd & try loading third party drivers by pressing F6.it gave me error like ur "driver disk does not have revelant support files" and failed to reconised by windows. also it when i proceeded without installing drivers it did not detech by hdd. tried 10 times with a brand new floppy disk but still no luck.wonder what was wrong


so then tried installing ubuntu 6.06 with a Desktop cd(one that i got using shipit).it booted cool into desktop. now tried installing by clicking on desktop icon. all went smooth till partioning stage and it failed to read my partion table. cried on ubuntu forums. found users with similar problems like mine. so made a conclusion that this desktop cd's are buggy.

then tried ubuntu 5.10, through install cd. so i deleted the C: drive and made a fat32 partion of 11gb from the start. told the ubuntu installer to create a new partion automaticlly so it created a partion of of ext3+swap that totals to 9gb. rest process when smooth atlast my computer was listen to some mp3's

now i had a broadband connection so did a dist upgrade overnight. everything seems cool. and drapper was running without any problems. after few days somebody on MSDN forums suggested me to try install windows with older drivers i did that only. windows now recongized by hdd. formatted C: drive with a NTFS partion and xp was running up all fine. this is now the problem start's.

my grub was gone from MBR as xp has taken control over my system. i tried every method of restoring grub but failed. so through of removing ubuntu and going for FC5. downloaded all five cd's. burned first disc on cd & used "linux askmethod" to selected hda2 as location of my cd's. it said my partion table is unreadable do u want to erase the hdd. thats where i am now stuck. also the post length is reached to will start a new post. for other details.

it worked with xp, i am posting this msg from xp only and ther are no probs in running windows xp. i mean i did'nt get any error when installing xp

it failed in partioning stage
i ran into ubuntu 5.10 live cd mounted all partions and produced this list. here is my hdd from computer management in windows xp

http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?i...15608amsq8.png




hope now i am clear enough

the partion record i got through "nortan partion magic 8"