So much for old Linux

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sat, 09 May 2009 15:53:13 -0500, Mark Griffin <markagrif at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>    I tried to load fedora 5.2 and 6.0 on this computer but it failed
>> because neither software could handle SATA hard drives :-)
>>
>>    It took off just fine until it came to hard drives and it called
>> /dev/sda an IDE and it did not respond right and the loading failed at
>> that point.
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
> You certainly are a random sort of person.
>
> Mark


I've been bitten by using old install media in the past.

Gentoo uses rolling releases. If you install using an old cd, you can get  
the same system as if you downloaded a new cd. Because of this I rarely  
even bother getting a new cd (I would die if Ubuntu didn't have online  
upgrading). I forgot this when I built a new computer with an nvidia raid,  
I could not get the Gentoo cd to recognize the disks. I talked to support  
things and almost went so far as to make a bug report before I noticed it  
was a cd from 2006. Popping in a new cd worked fine.  :|

  --Steve