Gateway install

[Stew Schneider]

I'm going to give Feisty a try when I get it back from the shop, 
hopefully running XP. Gateway won't give up the drivers, so it took a 
tech two days to run it all down for me. I want it to dual boot. We'll see.

Many thanks to all with SATA drives for eliminating that possibility. 
What happened was that I inserted the live CD and booted from the CD 
drive. Boot started, but then sat there --- forever.

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Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Stew Schneider wrote:
>   
>> I bought a Gateway laptop with Vista on it, and tried to install Dapper 
>> or Edgy, don't remember which. Might have tried both. The CD was 
>> recognized, and started, but hung, unable to find the SATA drive. That 
>> annoyed me sufficiently that I gave the machine away. The recipient is 
>> trying to install XP on it and having the dickens of a time doing that.
>>
>> What do you do if you have SATA drives? Is there a way to install?
>> stew
>>     
>
> I would try Feisty.  The hard disk drivers have changed a lot.  You may
> have better (or worse...) luck.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
>