Quoting Brendan Halpin (brendan.halpin at ul.ie):
> Anyway, I've discovered a bit more about my machine, and now I want
> to rephrase my query: is there ANY distro which will install on a
> SATA drive? (Dell Optiplex GX270 w/ 120gb SATA drive.)
I just asked the infobot on #debian about "sata", and it said:
07:24 <dpkg> You'll need Jeff Garzik's libata patch for Serial ATA support,
about which see http://lwn.net/Articles/52488/ . If you need that
in your installer, see http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/debian/ on
how to craft your own netinst with a homemade custom kernel. If
that seems like a lot of trouble, it's price you pay for using
bleeding-edge hardware. ("You can tell the pioneers by the arrows
in their backs.")
Of course, I _fed_ it that information tidbit yesterday. ;->
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