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Re: Install RH on HD Possibly I did it wrong?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Dec 2 20:03:48 1998
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 19:57:16 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: ke4eth@mail.aeneas.net, RedHat Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Chuck Hawks wrote:
> Greetings to one and all.
>
> I have a question about partioning the drive for LINUX and WFWG3.11.
>
> Machine config as follows:
>
> Intel VLB MB w/128k cache with a AMD 486DX4-100
> 16 MB FP True Parity Memory
> Sony 2x CDROM
> 1.4 M FDC
> Quantum 2.5 Gig HD (master)
> Quantum 210 Meg HD (Slave
> STB Horizon Video board w/ 1 meg (VLB card)
> DTC 2778 Multi-I/O (IDE, Flop, LPT1, COM1, COM2, Game)
> (VL Bus is set to 33 MHZ and jumpers ar set for correct HD
> thruput)
> Generic I/O (LPT2, COM3)
> SB - 16 Sound Card
> 2nd IDE card set to secondary controller
>
> All in a Full-Tower Case with 250 Watt PS.
>
> LPT1 is setup Bi-Directional and uses IRQ-7
> COM1 is 03f8h and IRQ 4
> COM2 is 02f8h and IRQ 3
> COM3 is 03E8h and IRQ 5
> COM4 is disabled
> Game port on Multi-I/O is disabled
> Floppy controler set to Primary
> IDE set to Primary
>
> Sound Card is a Sound Blaster 16
> No CDrom installed to this card (propritaty drive only - disabled)
> Game/MIDI port set to MIDI
>
> The Hard drive is partioned with fdisk in dos.
>
> Main partion is 528 MB and is drive C: it has MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows
> for Workgroups 3.11 and untill I get my LINUX setup (properly) is NET
> access for me.
>
> The extended partion is 1.5 Gig and has a 528 MB DOS partion on it. The
> rest of the partion I had told Fdisk that it was 840Mb and 128Mb (set
> aside for LINUX).
Since that's an older machine, the bios probably cannot boot
Linux if Linux is after cylinder 1023. Is that the case?
How many cylinders does the large disk have according
to DOS fdisk? According to the BIOS? According to Linux fdisk?
If all three numbers agree, you are happy.
It was possibly a mistake to create the Linux partitions using
DOS. I would use a Linux diskette to change the partition
type of the linux partitions to 6, then use DOS fdisk to delete
those same partitions, then let Linux create them again
during the installation of Linux.
The reason W311 is slow now is that your Linux partitions
still have DOS in their boot sectors. The only way to
wipe that out is to let DOS delete those partitions.
>
>
> After formating the DOS partions and installing my programs and OS from
> the old 210 (now drive D:) I then check to see if it worked (but not
> NET)
>
> I then started to install RedHat 5.0 (I am supposed to get 5.2 or
> greater for Christmas or Birthday, but lets get everything running
> first). I used DISKDruid and Formatted the 128 as a SWAP Partion and the
> 840 as NATIVE.
>
> When I used the LET'S SEE WHAT THIS SUCKER WILL TAKE option, It
> swallowed itself when installing the Vixie-crom install with a Signal
> 11. I got around this with installing in smaller chunks. This has left
> aprox. 200-300 Meg free.
>
> Hopefully I have give enough info on the background.
>
> Untill I get the system running on LINUX, I need to keep the WFWG on the
> system.
>
> Did I do the partioning correctly or do I need to make the Extended
> smaller for the second DOS dirve on the 2Gig and then ??
>
> The originial drive was the 210 Meg andg everythine ran fine in WFWG.
> Now stuff runs slower and I keep getting in winsock COMM ERRORS
> (Overrun) and tried everything except removing the 2gig and making the
> 210Meg the Master again.
>
> Sorry for the long post, but better to give more infoemation (in some
> cases) then less.
>
> As soon as I get a good stable system, and can get software installed to
> run my small PT Custom Photo T-Shirt business I will setup a WFWG
> machine (486-66) for my 2 year-old son to learn (play)on.
>
> TIA for any and all input.
>
> Chuck Hawks
>
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