On the start of installation of the operating system it will ask you to install sata drivers.
Once this is done your system will recognize the drive and things will progress normally.
Agree, but since I have no floppy and only a flash drive and a CD drive access, the question was how do you tell the system setup to access the flash drive rather than drive "A" that it expects?
From what I could discern the computer at that point is entirely dependant on the command structure running via the setup disk which points only to the "A" drive as an alternate.
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