[Sderby] Debian

[roger.shone at btinternet.com]

Hi,

Anyone out there running debian at present?
I've just upgraded my pc and rather than reinstall fedora core, thought I'd try the latest debian cd's (7 in total - taken the best part of all day to download). This will sit alongside windows xp - this needed a third party driver for the hard disk controller to boot.

My issue is that debian doesn't find the hard disk (serial ata drive) and consequently won't install - does anyone have any ideas? I've trawled through the debian site but can't find anything specific.

Thanks,

Roger