On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 03:04:09 Peter Jay Salzman wrote: | d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter.
What is the preferred size? I had it at 80, this time it's 70. :-) | as for lilo, you can have two devices on each ide chain. i assume | you have | windows on one hd and linux on another hd. why not just make them | a | mast/slave pair on the first IDE chain? Nice try. Here's what happened when I got my HD and added it to install Linux : Original setup, out-of-the-box from Compaq : Quantum Bigfoot, 8GB, /dev/hda (I'll use the Linux naming since it is nice and concise) DVD drive, /dev/hdc Zip drive, /dev/hdd floppy , /dev/fd0 (my floppy came on the floppy connector) My Compaq is a Presario 5035 mini-Tower (very mini!) I bought a 10GB Maxtor drive (3.5"). My tower only has 4 drive bays: HD, DVD, Zip, floppy so I intended to leave the disk somewhere but use it anyways. As it turns out there is just enough room on top of the power supply and behind the floppy drive that the cover fits on and you can't tell from the outside. As for connecting it, the BIOS has no way to manually specify what the disks are (like older BIOS's on my dad's 286 and 486). Since /dev/hdb was open I figured I would put the disk there. After a lot of frustration and rebooting I realized that my BIOS could only recognize my Maxtor drive if it was in "Cable Select" mode. Of course, I don't have the special cable that allows 2 disks on it in "Cable Select" mode. The BIOS wouldn't see it in Master or Slave mode, and then the BIOS couldn't find the other disk on the bus either. I tried all combinations of disks together with the Master/Slave configs. Since the Maxtor drive had to be in Cable Select mode it had to be by itself on a bus. The BIOS doesn't care about Zip drives so putting it with the zip drive was equivalent to being by itself. I moved the DVD drive to /dev/hdb and made it a slave while the 'doze disk is still /dev/hda. My current setup: orig hd : /dev/hda dvd : /dev/hdb Linux hd : /dev/hdc zip : /dev/hdd | | boy, everytime i open her computer, i always get the feeling that | compaq | didn't just put any thought into working on your computer. they | specifically | designed it to discourage you to! Yes definitely! Not only that, but they put everything except the modem on the mother board. You can't upgrade or even just replace the video or sound without needing a new mother board. As for booting, someone else suggested using a floppy. Yes, Linux can boot fine with LILO on a floppy, but the floppy had no /dev/hda file so I couldn't ever boot that other OS. That's why I settled for loadlin. Fortunately I don't have the need to boot the other OS very often these days. -D
