I just bought a Dell Inspiron 530 with the following basic configuration:
Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core Technology and 8MB cache
SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ (500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM))
SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S (16X DVD+/-RW Drive)
I tried to install Centos 5.1 on it with dual boot (keep Windows XP partition) and got stuck on some strange issues. I hope one of you could shed some light on what I should do next. Here's the summary of my installation attempts.
Attempt 1: I burned both an installation DVD (slow and verified) and installation CD #1. I tried them both and both failed due to no driver found. More specifically, at the step for "what type of media contains the packages to be installed?", I chose "Local CDROM", the result screen said "No driver found" and prompted me to Select driver from a list of drivers. I randomly chose a few but none worked.
Attempt 2. I tried network installation. I chose "HTTP" when prompted for the media. I then specified the mirror.centos.org as the Web Site Name and /centos/5/os/i386/ as the Red Hat directory. It got the installation started successfully. However, at the step for partitioning the disk, I was prompted to choose the partition option and I checked the "review and modify partitioning layout". Also, there's no drive shown in the "select the drive(s) to use for this installation" panel. When i clicked Next, a "No drives Found" message popped up, saying "an error has occurred -- no valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. please check your hardware for the cause of this problem."
It seemed both attempts failed due to the installation program couldn't find either the SATA DVD drive or the SATA hard disk. However, it's hard to believe Centos 5.1 installation couldn't recognize these two SATA devices.
I'm now stuck. Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated.
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Regards,
-Hui
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