Which motherboard do you have? I have a set of RH9 CD that will allow you to install directly onto SATA drives on Intel 875 and 865 chipset based motherboards. Contact me offline to get the CD.
Red Hat 9 installer does not have support for SATA drive on that board. We have to fix quite a few things to get it to work. I can provide the CDs or ftp it to a server somewhere so that everyone can install on SATA drives on 865 and 875 boards.
We tested install on the following boards
- All Intel 875 and 865 boards
- All ASUS 875 and 865 boards