that's the whole idea and there are step by step installation instructions for Gentoo that really make it understandable.
I say that cause I ran Suse, Debian and Red Hat and they were quite confusing and difficult to deal with. I guess the reason being is cause Gentoo has the emerge feature...
umm, as far as I know, none because it is a sofware driven mode, meaning it uses the processor on your PC to do all the work and the software from your machine to know what to do, but you might be able to get one to work.
Some people have written drivers for it and I'd give Gentoo a shot, it may...
OK, I have Gentoo linux and Win2K running on my machine, here is what you do.
First, unless you have a open partition about (minimum) 10 to 20 Gig open, open one up for linux and leave it un-partitioned
second download your distro (I prefer Gentoo cause it really teaches well and works well...
I'm not totally familiar with SATA ATM but I can tell you that a SATA RAID setup is not currently supported by any Linux Kernels, but is being worked on and last I heard from the Gentoo forums was being resolved in the 2.6.6 rc1 love kernel.
I'd give it time before it's truely avaliable and...
Personally I recommend Gentoo
Reason being is that the install is as everything will be later on when you try to install or run other things through the terminal.
Also installing via text gives you a good idea as to where things are at, how the file system is made up, how it works and how to...
Well two things could be accuring and anyone correct me if Im wrong or miss something.....
One could be that Linux or you didn't write the to the boot sector so it sees no OS
or
Since Linux does not check to make sure there are no bad sectors may have written to a bad boot sector, meaning...
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