No Hard Disk

[linux4power]

error on partitioning my fedora box

dear users im just getted fedora8 on dvd and woul;d like to instalkl it
my config is amd athlon 600mhz with 256 mb sdram a geforce fx5200 grafikcard with 256mb ram a 40gb ide hdd a dvd a cd writer and a wlan card

though upon the screen for partitioning there is no availeble harddisk to choose what did i do wrong my system is running on ubuntu now

thanx

[BabySeal]

what motherboard do you have? It sounds like the installer does not have a driver for your motherboard's chipset or there may be something special you have to do to get your hard drive to show up.

[linux4power]

hi its a asus k7m mainboard for amd processors ubuntu is running fine but ii like to run fedora as a server machine where can i get this drivers for fedora

thx

[kldixon]

I have a museum piece myself :) (K7V).. No such luxury as a DVD drive though. It sounds like ubuntu is occupying all the space on your hard drive. Either you repartition and give say 20gb to ubuntu leaving 20gb for the fedora install or buy another drive. 80gb ide drives are cheap.

[BabySeal]

Hey guys i did some research on the problem. I couldnt find anything exactly for his motherboard but i did find a few were asus boards that they were having trouble with. Go here and read about it.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=586894&page=2

Some people also talked about low ram memory being a problem, see if you cant find a spare 64mb or something.
Also if its a western digital hard drive, make sure that is is jumpered properly, 2 people i saw had that problem. (if its the only drive on IDE chain it should be set to single not master)
Look up information on your motherboards chipset, you might find that there are bugs listed for it.

well thats all i can do for now, ive got some studying to do. Good luck!