I'm thinking of buying an 80GB Seagate SATA HardDrive. I'm currently using an Intel 865G Motherboard. Would anyone by any chance know if this combination would work out under Slackware. If not could you kindly suggest other posibble alternatives. Thanks in advance.

Yea, It sure will. I have a Seagate Baracuda 120 gig SATA hard drive. It's not supported directly by Slackware 10 but there are a few things you can do. JolyRogers on linuxiso made some nice bootdisks that you can find in my sig, or, I think a better way to go if you have the bandwidth (cable/dsl), is to download Bonecrushers "slackware-sata-disc-one.iso".... I booted up with it and it recognized my SATA controller and got me into the setup. I stopped there and backed out, but if I got that far then there is NOTHING wrong with that ISO as far as I can tell. The install should go off without a hitch, just like the original disk would using the bare.i on an ATA hard drive.... He also has some floppy boot images you can use if you still want to try using the original Slackware Disc One....

The info on bonecrushers bootdisks and his "disc-one" ISO are here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...77#post1043977

It's on BitTorrent and lately, there has been atleast 3 seeders, including myself. You should get a pretty good transfer rate...

jong357, What motherboard are you using along with that Seagate hardrive, and what kernel. The second problem is that i dont have a broadband connection. I got this idea of extracting the Slackware10.0 ISO if thats actually posibble then replacing the default 2.4 kernel with a 2.6 kernel, this ought to make things easier, taking into consideration that this process does work. But have not tried it out myself. Got a clue if it works out.

It's an Intel 875P, 800 mhz. FSB

I run both 2.4.26 and 2.6.7 on it.... Normally I stick with the 2.4.26....

Had to patch the 2.4.26 with the 2.4.26-rc1-libata3 patch from Jeff Garziks directory on Kernel.org....
2.6.7 already supports SATA but it seems as if you can't install 2.6.7 during the install process... Have to wait until you hit your desktop... So, your going to need to either use a boot disk or grab that ISO... Sucks about the bandwidth. I take it your on dial-up? If thats the case use either bonecrushers sata.i floppy image or you can grab the 3 images from my sata directory below. Up to you....

I see no problems with your MoBo... Should work like a charm....

If you are patient and want to try and grab that ISO from bonecrusher, it looks as if we have picked up an intermitent seeder, so there are 3 seeders here and there, atleast 2 full-time. With the low ammount of people grabing it currently, you should be able to reach your max download speed.... Probably a whopping 5kbps...

Still, you should get it in roughly 20-30 hours I would imagine...

You would have to get in touch with bonecrusher about the modifying of the original ISO.... That's a little over my head.... Bonecrusher did it with his ISO tho.... So, yes... It can be done.

Yes, you guessed correctly I'm on dialup and pay by the hour for the usage so it would be a bit expensive anyhow i read the threads by bonecrusher and yourself, but as i probably mentioned earlier im a bit of a newbie, i did not understand the process. OK so i download sata.i then what? One more thing. Are you sure that a Seagate SATA harddrive will work on an Intel865G MoBo.

I'm not a big hardware guy, but I would say yes, it will work...

http://www.techbuy.com.au/products/3..._SATA_mATX.asp

Read the description (top paragraph) and then look at the bottom... This kind of searching is the only way I would be able to make a decesion about whether or not it's going to work... Not a very reliable way but should be safe to assume that it will work. Thats a fairly new chip isn't it? One would think that it has SATA support...

As for the sata.i..... If you have a linux OS already installed, download that sata.i image and then use the 'dd' command to burn it to a floppy... Like so...

If you aren't using Linux, but windows instead, you'll have to use "RawWrite" or whatever it's called. Haven't used it so I can't tell you how... It's listed here and there on this forum... Bonecrusher, on his post, may have even stated how to use it...

Once you have your boot floppy made, boot up with it. Once it starts to boot up, put your Slackware CD1 in your drive. As soon as it's done with the floppy, it should access the CD and go into the install process. Atleast, thats how it works with those ICH5 floppy disks in my sig. After it's done installing all the packages to your disk and it asks you "what kernel would you like to use?".... Pick the option that states "kernel from boot floppy" or whatever it's called. Also use another floppy for safe measure to make a regular "boot disk" when it asks you to... I don't use LILO so I skip over that part and install GRUB when I get to my desktop...

By the way this all theoratical until now, i dont have the hard drive nor the slack dvd. I dont know why im starting to worry now. If it doesnt work i;; try the sata.i image. Um one more thing got any idea why i cant pm you or any other person on these forums?

Yea, I'm not sure... I think you can only PM if you are a "contributing member".... Your more than welcome to ask away here... It will get more responses anyway.... If you want to tho. jong0357-AT-yahoo-DOT-com....

Yeah i think ill email you if i have any problems, thanks for the help