hey scott...
are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers?
might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following was with regards to obtaining drivers for the sata controller/drive to be used under linux??
peace
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Scott Silva
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:55 AM
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by
Centos 5.1 installation?
on 3-18-2008 10:47 PM Yu-Hui Jin spake the following:
> I was told to try two methods:
> 1) linxu all-generic-ide
> 2) install ahci and config to use it in BIOS.
>
> #1 is too slow; #2, I checked my BIOS, there's no ahci option.
> That's why i'm following the article which tells how to install it for
> XP and get it into BIOS.
>
Installing a driver in XP will not get anything into your bios, and won't help
you install Linux.
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