Hellow i am having intel (gce101)mother board.now windows xp sp2 is running.but i want to install linux enterprice edition (vertion 4).i want as dual boot os. i deleted one drive from windows(f:drive having free space 20Gb).Then i put the linux os cd no.1 in cd drive it is booting.but after some time a warning messege is comming
("No device drive is detected in system.you need to manually seclect the driver for this")
after this messege i select any one which is named sata such that which is listed.After that X window service is coming.i come across the language selection partition windown is coming.in that (1)auto partition(2) manual partition is the option.if i select eighter (1)or(2) error messege is comming that is

(" no device is found in which to create linux partition check for the hard ware ")
what can i do for this error .after the error if i click ok button ,the computer is restarting.
my hard disk is 80Gb seagate hard disk)
my linux cd is for 32 bit os.
Please help in this regards.
thank you.

The Linux installer is not detecting your hard disk....
I infer that it is a SATA drive, but you don't actually say that---please confirm.

What is "linux enterprice edition (vertion 4)"?? Do you mean RedHat Enterprise 4? Since that is a bit old, it is quite possible that it does not have SATA drivers.

I have a SATA system at home, and MOST modern distros install without a hitch. A few do not.

Unless you have a specific reason to use Enterprise, I would recommend Fedora, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, etc.

thank you for giving response.
But one person told that you have to download a particular device driver for 32 bit system.in the cd linux kernal does not support the driver for the sata disk .you need to download the driver first then you load it in floopy disk insert it while installition.then the os will reconize the hard disk.i donot know where to download the device drive for this problem.if you know that please inform me .i will try out of it.thank you very much .