On Sunday 27 July 2003 17:05, Rthoreau wrote: > ThinKer softly asked, > > > So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is > > asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of > > > > /dev/hda > > /dev/hdc > > and > > /dev/hdd. > > Debian can be confusing if you really do not have much experience with > partitioning. I would suggest you read the partitioning HOWTO on > over at the www.tldp.org, this is The Linux Documentation Project > which is a good place to find stuff if your confused. > > Basically what this screen is telling you is what hard drive do you > want to install Debian on. You mentioned you had three harddrives, > under Linux harddrives are under what is called devices. Or /dev when > you see /dev/hda it is most likely your first hard drive on your > Primary IDE channel. Something like this: > > Primary IDE Master: 4.1 GB ------>/dev/hda > Primary IDE Slave: 1.2 GB------->/dev/hdc > Secondary IDE Slave: 4.1 GB------->/dev/hdd > > This could also be partitions on a specific harddrive, say you split > your Primary Master into 3 or 4 partitions then it would be numbered > in somewhat like manner /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdc2 /dev/hdc3.
Just a minor correction - the primary IDE slave would be the second drive, hence /dev/hdb (not hdc) So the setup would be Primary Master - /dev/hda Primary Slave - /dev/hdb Secondary Slave - /dev/hdd If the primary master is subdivided, it would be /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 and so on. However, if Thinker's cfdisk found this: > > /dev/hda > > /dev/hdc > > and > > /dev/hdd. then it looks as if it found hard drives on the Primary Master, Secondary Master and Secondary Slave. (Not the Primary Slave). Which is the setup I have, btw, as my CD drive's on the Primary Slave. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
