Alright, so I got my PC to finally boot from a CD and now whenever I try to setup my partitions with cfdisk it says it can't find a HDD.

When I go into BIOS, heres what my configs look like:

IDE Controller: Secondary
Primary IDE Master: None
Primary IDE Slave: None
Secondary IDE Master: Secondary Master [CD-ROM]
Secondary IDE Slave: None

My boot settings:

First: HD
Second: CD-ROM
Third: Network
Fourth: Removable Devices

Also, when i click the Hard Drive option on my BIOS, it says:

1. Bootable Add-in Card



Anyone know what I can do to fix it? I'm currently messing with BIOS trying to get it right.

Thanks!

Is there an option in your bios to automatically detect settings.

Your bios says that there is only a CDROM installed

Nevermind...I got it. Now I need to know how to make a linux and swap partition.

The installation will probably do it automatically for you.

Its easy to make partitions with fdisk and even easier with cfdisk.
cfdisk has an user friendly GUI so just run it (cfdisk /dev/hdX), select an option to add new partition and select its type (one partition with linux, one with linux swap)

Alright, so I need a linux and a swap partition, so would I do a partition on /dev/hda and /dev/hda2?

Both partition will be on /dev/hda (hda is your primary master - physical hard drive) but one of them will be /dev/hda1 and second /dev/hda2 (logical partitions)

Alright, cool...I figured that's what I was doing wrong because when i tried partitioning last nite it said it wasn't allowing more than 1 partition.