Dear Friends,

1) I bought a DELL DIMENSION 8300. Specs as follow:

Harddisk = 120GB Serial ATA (SATA).
- 1st partition (40G) = WinXP
- 2nd partition (80G)

Video card = 128 MB Nvidia GeForce FX 5200

2) When I tried installing LINUX 8.0 on my SATA harddisk, the installation failed and hanged half way. (No matter how many times i tried....!)

3) When I replaced the SATA harddisk with a Parallel ATA Harddisk, the Linux 8.0 installation is perfectly fine. The 40G Parallel ATA Harddisk is partitioned as follow:
1st partition (20G) = WinXP,
2nd partition (20G) = Linux 8.0

Can any kind soul enlighten me the problem with my SATA harddisk?
Can SATA harddisk actually support LINUX? Does the problem lie with the way I partitioned the SATA harddisk?

Thanks alot,
:-) Merrvyn

ya, This is a Windows XP Newsgroup. And there's no such thing as Linux 8.0. Contact the maker of the Distro of linux you wish to use.
"Merrvyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:%23KqbqF%(E-Mail Removed)...
Dear Friends,

1) I bought a DELL DIMENSION 8300. Specs as follow:

Harddisk = 120GB Serial ATA (SATA).
- 1st partition (40G) = WinXP
- 2nd partition (80G)

Video card = 128 MB Nvidia GeForce FX 5200

2) When I tried installing LINUX 8.0 on my SATA harddisk, the installation failed and hanged half way. (No matter how many times i tried....!)

3) When I replaced the SATA harddisk with a Parallel ATA Harddisk, the Linux 8.0 installation is perfectly fine. The 40G Parallel ATA Harddisk is partitioned as follow:
1st partition (20G) = WinXP,
2nd partition (20G) = Linux 8.0

Can any kind soul enlighten me the problem with my SATA harddisk?
Can SATA harddisk actually support LINUX? Does the problem lie with the way I partitioned the SATA harddisk?

Thanks alot,
:-) Merrvyn

Sorry, your question has absolutely nothing to do with Windows XP.
Visit: http://www.linux.org/docs/usenetlinux.html

--
Nicholas

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"Merrvyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message:
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Dear Friends,

1) I bought a DELL DIMENSION 8300. Specs as follow:

Harddisk = 120GB Serial ATA (SATA).
- 1st partition (40G) = WinXP
- 2nd partition (80G)

Video card = 128 MB Nvidia GeForce FX 5200

2) When I tried installing LINUX 8.0 on my SATA harddisk, the installation failed and hanged half way. (No matter how many times i tried....!)

3) When I replaced the SATA harddisk with a Parallel ATA Harddisk, the Linux 8.0 installation is perfectly fine. The 40G Parallel ATA Harddisk is partitioned as follow:
1st partition (20G) = WinXP,
2nd partition (20G) = Linux 8.0

Can any kind soul enlighten me the problem with my SATA harddisk?
Can SATA harddisk actually support LINUX? Does the problem lie with the way I partitioned the SATA harddisk?

Thanks alot,
:-) Merrvyn