SATA Harddrive?

[thepanchenko]

I am looking to install Gentoo on my computer. Here's the setup:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2500 (running as a 3200)
512 PC3200 Ram
Seagate 120 GB SATA Harddrive

The harddrive is partitioned as follows:
1. NTFS 75 GB (initial Win2k partition, now used as storage)
2. Ext2 15 GB
3. Linux Swap 2 GB
4. NTFS 10GB (WinXP Partition)

I am wondering if there will be any issues installing Gentoo on this setup. Will I be able to just install it on the 15 GB partition that RH used to be installed on? The reason I ask is because I pulled out my old Slackware 9 CD because I got sick of RH and its BS (I never installed Slackware, just had the CD) and it wouldn't recognize the harddrive. Anything I need to worry about with Gentoo?

[maccorin]

the hard part isn't going to be getting gentoo to recognize your hdd, you should just build the kernel yourself instead of using genkernel. BUT you will have to find a live-cd w/ support for that hdd in it to install. You can try the gentoo live-cd, or if that doesn't work, knoppix may.

[mdwatts]

One of the threads I found with a JL forum search for 'gentoo sata'.

http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99482&highlight=sata+gentoo

Anything in the Gentoo forums to help with installing their distro on a SATA drive?

[hardcore]

here's a link straight from the gentoo forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=76221&highlight=serial+ata

And there's tons of topics about SATA installs, so take a look.