cant install mandriva,suse,fedora

[thecreativeboy]

i am unable to install mandriva 2007,suse-10,fedora-6 in core-2-duo 2.0 ghz processor with the motherboard of intel pentium 965.so please help me.when i try to install the mandriva-07 it will show the error
unable to find the cd-rom device.
when i try with the knoppix live cd then it show the error like the filesystem is not found.

[mehulved]

Try a distro with kernel 2.6.19 or higher. If possible try sabayon. It seems you have some controller which isn't well supported. I remember JMicron controllers giving lots of such problems. Don't know about it's status now.
More info on your rig may help.

[thecreativeboy]

i didnt get ur words.you are telling in a technical way.so i didnt understand the words.please tell me what can i do?i am a new-bie to the linux as well as hardware.

[mehulved]

In short. Get a latest distribution, not an old one.

[sashijoseph]

Like Mehul pointed out,the 965's i/o controller hub(ICH8 doesn't have native PATA support.So a 3rd party JMicron ide controller is used which isn't supported by some older distros,hence it doen't detect your cd/dvd drive(which I presume is PATA).
You may try the fol.,failing which you'll need to go in for a newer distro.
- First disable AHCI in the BIOS and set it to EIDE.
- Then boot your distro with the fol parameter

linux all-generic-ide

[thecreativeboy]

thank you mr.joseph and mr.mehul for ur kindly advice for the newbie.and wat is meant by the fol parameter.

[praka123]

^that is to be given at the start of livecd boot prompt ":"

[thecreativeboy]

thank you praka123.

[vish786]

go for Linux Mint 3.0, it has 2.6.20 kernel.

[vish786]

or u could go for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon version, it has 2.6.22 kernel.

[praka123]

^how?lets wait for teh release.for the time being Ubuntu feisty with 2.6.20+ kernels will do fine detecting the controller?

[thecreativeboy]

i installed the suse 10.2.thank you for your kindly advice.