Fedora Core 2 cannot find unpartitioned space?

[Michiel]

Hi there!

I've created about 22GB unformatted, unpartitioned free space on my HDD for an installation of Fedora Core 2. This was about, together with a guide, which was released in 2004.

One problem: when I boot with the first disk, I pick Graphical Installation, language etc. I'm asked which partitioning I want to use, auto or disk druid. Whichever I pick, I get the same warning: There was no available disk space found on which an operating system can be installed (or something like that, translated from dutch...)

After searching some forums, en trying some tips found on them, I still can't get it to work. I have one solution left to try: unplugging my HDD's IDE cable before the installation, and replugging it afterwards, which I'm not looking forward to doing.

Do you happen to have any other ideas to try out?

Thanks,

Michiel

[bigtomrodney]

Are you using a SATA disk? It's possible that there simply aren't any drivers available for your controller. Fedora Core 2 is nine releases old. I'd strongly recommend looking at a new release with up to date drivers.

[Michiel]

How can I check that?

And yes, I guessed that might've been a problem aswell... Downloading Ubuntu now... I haven't got any knowledge of Linux' distros whatsoever...

[bigtomrodney]

You can check what drivers are loaded by using the lsmod command, but if you are unfamiliar with the module names it can be a bit cryptic. Because the drivers ship in the kernel as modules the best way to keep up to date is to use the newest stable release you can. It's a little bit different from Windows in that respect, there isn't a driver you just download and install but rather you'd have to rebuild it from source. Also due to the progressive nature of Linux things change at a much faster pace so you're better off just sticking to the latest release.

I use Ubuntu myself, it's very user friendly and has a huge amount of software available in its repositories.

[Michiel]

Ok I will give Ubuntu a try then first, thanks

[L4Linux]

You can also try Fedora 11 "Leonidas", it is user-friendly (although not as much as Ubuntu) and it has the most cutting edge technologies that Ubuntu and everyone else incorporates after 1 or 2 releases.
It also has KDE edition.

Ubuntu is a great choice as well.