How Do I Install Lindows 4 on SATA Drive?

This is a discussion about How Do I Install Lindows 4 on SATA Drive? in the Everything Linux category; I have Lindows 4 and can't seem to install it on my SATA Hard Disk. I have a Abit NFS7 v2. 0 motherboard and can't find a driver for SATA so that my HD finds Lindows 4. .

Everything Linux 1800 This topic was started by malachi, 2003-11-20 08:51. Last reply by Pfour, 2003-12-27 22:55

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malachi

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2003-11-20 09:51

I have Lindows 4 and can't seem to install it on my SATA Hard Disk. I have a Abit NFS7 v2.0 motherboard and can't find a driver for SATA so that my HD finds Lindows 4.

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danleff

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2003-11-20 11:21

I took a look at the Lindows forum. It seems that sata is not supported yet. Did you try a google search?

malachi

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2003-11-21 09:45

thanks danleff did that and some suggested to upgrade to the 2.4 kernel.
how does one (a newbie) install a kernel? is it easy as double clicking the kernel exe file or somethink?

danleff

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2003-11-21 11:31

Lindows 4.0 has the 2.4.20 kernel. I bet you need a newer version. Lindows is not friendly when it comes to recompiling the kernel. Frankly, it is not an easy process for a newbie. It is not as easy as clicking in an "exe" file. I have tried various kernel re-compiles with varing results. Please let me ask (for support purposes), do you have a membership for Lindows, so you can access the support forums? They are very helpful on the member forums.

For a newbie, and if your Lindows was not purchased, you may want to try another distro with a newer kernel version percompiled.

Pfour

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2003-12-27 22:55

Hey All,
Mandrake 9.2 is the only Distro I have tried that detects & installed without trouble on my SATA drive. The latest Fedora, Slackware & Suse
distro's would not install.

MSI 865PE
P4c 2.6ghz
1 gig DDR400 OEM
Maxtor 80gig SATA
Asus Ti4400 video
SBlive 5.1
NEC 1300A DVD/RW
onboard Intel 10/100 nic
WinXP Pro SP1
Mandrake 9.2