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I am using a Western Digital SATA hard drive and I want to dual-boot Windows XP and White Box, XP for general use and White Box for a server. I installed Windows without any problem, but when I tried to install Linux, it cannot find my hard drive. I have tried manually choosing a SATA driver for the SiS chipset(the same one as my motherboard) but it still can't find it when I try to partition and format the HDD.
The most recent version of White Box only runs on 2.11, so does anyone know of a different distro that I could use for a server with the 2.6 kernel and AMD64 support? Also, it would help if it had a GUI since I am very much a newbie with Linux and cannot run in a command line yet.
pretty much any distro will get you that. I would suggest something like ubuntu or if you would like a bit more of a challange gentoo. Both are on distrowatch.
Thank you for your help. I found the distro called slamd64 which is like Slackware so I decided I would try that since I am somewhat familiar with Slack. I may try Gentoo in the future but I want to use the command line more before I work with that.
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