John Sturgeon

John Sturgeon

Retired software engineer, contributor to open source projects when I can. Working on way too many projects and hobbies, and making notes here along the way.

FC 3 install on SATA drive - finally

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I’ve finally gotten Fedora Core 3 installed on my SATA drive. You may remember that I had some problems getting Fedora Core 3 installers to see my sata drive (bug in sata_nv). My solution was a bit complex, but it ultimately worked:

  1. dropped a small (40Gig) IDE drive in

  2. installed FC3 onto it

  3. updated (as per Jarod’s Guide) to 2.6.10 which can recognize sata drives

  4. partitioned my SATA drive to look like my IDE drive

  5. copied entire drive contents from IDE -> SATA

  6. edited fstab and grub

  7. rebooted

  8. reordered drives in bios (sata first now)

  9. fought my way through some filesystem integrity problems (not too bad…, just let fsck do its thing)

  10. … and that’s it!

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