On 2005-05-17, Franklin Parlamis penned:
> i understand that a lot of these questions are probably the stuff that
> is taught in an intro computer science course
Er, not really. Well, not in *my* intro to CS course, they weren't.
What's that quote? ... ah, yes:
"Computer science is about comput
thanks for these replies. my bios has features like "Transfer Mode"
where I can choose PIO 0, Max PIO, Enhanced DMA, Ultra DMA 0 or Max
UDMA and "Translation Mode" where I can choose Bit-Shift, LBA Assisted,
User (which lets me input a geometry with cylinders maxed out at 1024,
heads at 256 an
On 2005-05-16, Lee Braiden penned:
> On Monday 16 May 2005 19:23, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>> If you have access to parted, you may find that it's a friendlier
>> way to partition and format a disk. The help command actually is
>> helpful, and the error messages when it won't let you do something
On Monday 16 May 2005 19:23, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> If you have access to parted, you may find that it's a friendlier way
> to partition and format a disk. The help command actually is
> helpful, and the error messages when it won't let you do something
> are also pretty clear.
Helpful online
On 2005-05-16, Adam Majer penned:
> Franklin Parlamis wrote:
>
>> i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install. it
>> is just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am
>> tranferring from Windows platform). i wanted to go with 6
>> partitions, which would require using
Franklin Parlamis wrote:
> i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install. it is
> just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am tranferring
> from Windows platform). i wanted to go with 6 partitions, which would
> require using an extended type physical drive to put th
i'm a true novice so apologies and thanks in advance.
i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install. it is
just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am tranferring
from Windows platform). i wanted to go with 6 partitions, which would
require using an extended type p
> I am installing Debian and having problems partitioning the drive properly.
> During the bad block scan, it starts counting by '10' and is taking forever.
> Do I have my drive partitioned wrong? Is the drive bad perhaps? How should
> it be set in my bios?
I'm not sure about this, but you mi
I am installing Debian and having problems partitioning the drive properly.
During the bad block scan, it starts counting by '10' and is taking forever.
Do I have my drive partitioned wrong? Is the drive bad perhaps? How should
it be set in my bios?
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