raylopez99

On Nov 24, 5:52 am, Linonut <lino...@bollsouth.nut> wrote:

> SATA used to be a problem when installed Debian. The install would fail
> if you were installing the 2.6 kernel. You had to install the 2.4
> kernel, and then later figure out how to install the 2.6 kernel yourself
> and switch all your partitions from the /dev/hdN naming to /dev/sdN
> naming.
>
> These days, the only problem I run into is when building a new kernel
> from the install .config -- for some reason sata_nv (Nvidia chipset)
> isn't picked up by mkinitrd. The workaround is easy, just compile it
> into the kernel.
>

Listen to you, Linonut. You are quite the pro. Imagine now, somebody
like me, who actually programs as a hobby (using the super user
friendly MS Visual Studio suite for C#, C++.NET), not being able to
install an OS easily where the HDs are SATA. Now picture Joe and
Sally Average trying to do it.

No wonder Linux has <1% market share.

RL