Can linux be installed on asus k8s-mx motherboard on a sata HDD?
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I think linux might detect SATA as a SCSI drive. On some motherboards, Windows does not recognize SATA either and needs the floppy disk with drivers. \nI think I had luck with Fedora Core 4 and SATA drives. Also try Xandros.
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Yes you can...go to bios give the first boot device as your DVD...put the Fedora Core 4 into your DVD rom and reebot the system...
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here --> http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/6702/asus-k8v-mx-beta-bios-0207/
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You can definitely have Linux and Windows Xp as dual boot on ur system. I have 2 linux distros and Windows Xp on my 40GB harddisk. 250 GB is a very high amt of hard disk space.. You can have anything you want installed on it..\n\nBefore going for dual boot, you need to know how to patition the disk for linux installation, and on what steps you should take before doing it..(as you say you are a newbie to linux).. Refer http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-dualboot.html\n\nWhile partitioning, dont allow it to do autopartition, as it would eat up all the free space u have.. Choose "Manual Partition with diskdruid" option and partition it as follows..\n\nYou may assign some 10GB for linux, where the partitioning may be as follows:\n\nMount Point   -----          Size\n------------------------------\n/        ------         5GB\n/home    ------         5GB\n/boot    ------         100MB\nSWAP     ------  3 x RAM_SIZE if ur RAM is less than 512MB if RAM is >512 MB, have ur SWAP as 750MB (This is my personal opinion after a lot of performance testing and optimization)\n\nYou can mount your FAT or NTFS format drives(windows drives) with linux.. so, u dont neeed to assign much extra space to linux, as ext3(linux format) drives cant be seen from windows. You can instead use the mounted windows drives itself for data storage on linux also. This way you can have the maximum amount of hard disk usable on both OSes.\n\nTo start with, Mandriva or Fedora should be good options, as regards to distro.\n\nHope this helps you in installing a dual boot system succesfully.\n\n(PS: Remember that installing Windows XP first and then installing linux is the easiest way, as linux would detect windows and boot it, whereas windows wont detect linux. Though there are other ways to recover linux partition if u install linux before installing windows, its not the recommended way for a newbie)
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You need to go into the BIOS, and set the mode of the SATA disk to legacy, then linux will pick it up fine. The current SATA drivers only support this slower mode.
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What OS are you running?  You shouldn't need a driver for your hard drive.
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Go to bios advanced bios setup\nThere you have an option to choose raid or sata
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Yeah, you're correct.  Motherboards and harddrives NEVER get along, you can only use one or the other.
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Not a chance.\n\nYou can do network boots, but they only really work to load a new OS.
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As in the workstations can have different OSs? Yes.\nThe file server? No. \nYou could boot Linux and then a Windows shell on the server.
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Vmware and using a live distro although very good don't quite run linux to it's full potential, if you really want to try it properly install it as a dual boot with windows, it can always be removed at a later date.
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No, just download a bootloader, and you can choose whether to load linux or windows on startup, but they both exist together on the same hard drive
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the prblem is the bootloader konows only about one distro (version) so it will boot only the distro it comes with.
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The windows installation will wipe it out, just delete the partitions when prompted. If you have a SCSI drive you will need to do a low-level format from the SCSI controller BIOS to wipe out the Linux bootloader.
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find this: http://www.pcstats.com/articleimages/200504/hddinstall_sata2.jpg on your moterboard and plug it in...if you do not have one then get this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2329305&CatId=1455\nhope that helped....\n-Doc-
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Kernel versions earlier to 2.6 won't support SATA disks.\n\nBetter u go for RED HAT AS distribution,as I've heard it supports sata.
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you should not be able to se your linux partitions in windows....the filesystem is different.\nthough you could see your windows filesystems in linux