Trying to install CentOS for dual booting. Currently running XP sp2 on a Shuttle SS30G2 SE, w/ 2048 DDR ram and 250 gb SATA hdd loaded with for XP and containing critical work data on 2 of the primary partitions. Using DISK Management from within XP I see the formatted SATA drive as Disk 1 and partitioned into 4 primary drives( OS, data1, data2, scratch ) and of course it works fine. I've been lead to believe it's easiest to add a second physical drive to load linux onto, so I've added another new Maxtor IDE 200 gb drive for a linux install point. From XP DISK Manager this disk is identified as Disk 0 and as unallocated . I run the GUI install for CentOS or Fedora FC6, and it identifies device hda and says it is not properly configured and needs hda to be prartitioned and allocated. I would like to assume it is looking at Disk 0, but can't be sure. I can't risk losing my data on Disk 1's data1 or data2 partions. Any way to know what disk is being probed and preped for the linux install? Saludos 1red911
You could try a Live-CD such as Knoppix to find out how your HDDs are identified in Linux before you tryto install CentOS.