On Tue, Aug 17 at 10:46PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: > > > lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and > > > HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in > > > windows parlance), and HDC and HDD are primary and secondary on > > > the second bus (E: and F: in windows parlance). > > > > yup > > on a second thought .. nope .. > > if you partition hdc into hdc1, hdc2, hdc3, hdc5 ... > those partitions will become C: D: E: F: > > and hdb will be G: > > ms is silly.. its sequential alphabets based on partitions
right. was just using the one-partition-per-disk windows metaphor to be sure i grokked what's what. :) (of course, you can assign any drive to just about anything... but the original defaults are A:/B: floppy, C:/D: ide bus 0, E:/F: ide bus 1 -- until, as you say, you partition something, which windows folks seldom ever do.) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #4 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Want to know WHAT FILES ARE PROVIDED BY PACKAGE x-y-z? This is a job for dpkg: enter "dpkg -L <package-name>" at the command prompt. Try "dpkg -L netbase | pager" for example. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
