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Hey, I'm trying to install slackware 10.2 on a computer that has a sata hard drive in it. I've never used a sata hard drive before today and I was just wondering where I needed to start.. I've tried doing it the same way that I would with a eide drive, by using fdisk on disk hda, but that isn't working. anyone help?? Thank you in advance
You must first of all use the sata.i kernel when you boot from the CD. The instructions on the screen show some example like bare.i /dev/hda ....Replacing bare.i with sata.i is the first step. Further I can't remember what it exactly says. Probably something like root=/dev/hda. If I remember correctly, that must now point to your cd (/dev/hdb or so). I did it a couple of month ago, so not sure.
Somewhere after installation, you must select a kernel. Make sure to select sata.i again
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