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Re: Newbie follow-up questions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Mon Nov 2 18:20:26 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 23:16:25 -0000
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hmmm.. sounds like too many physical disks for a system..
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Van Oostenbrugge <radar@cyber-wizard.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>; Lance@Tky3. 3web. Ne.
Jp <lance@tky3.3web.ne.jp>
Date: Monday, November 02, 1998 1:44 PM
Subject: Newbie follow-up questions...
>>... Are your drives EIDE, SCSI?
>
>all are IDE
>
>>How many? How are you installing -- from a cd, hard drive, FTP?
>
>I have 3 HD's... 1st (C:\) is main with win95, 2nd (D:\) and 3rd (E:\). I
>want to install Linux into the 3rd HD. I have boot and root floppies and 2
>CD's. (CD is F:\, and removeable drive [zip] is g:\)
>
>
>>...Instead, they are labelled /dev/hda for the first non-scsi hard drive,
>/dev/hdb for the second, and /dev/sda, sdb, etc.
>
>All my drives are NON - scsi. so that would mean /dev/hda , /dev/hdb , and
>/dev/hdc ? (just curious... are floppy drive designated as /dev/fda?)
>
>>As an example, my Linux root is in the second logical partition on the
>first SCSI drive, so that's /dev/sda6. (Numbers 1-4 >are reserved for the
4
>primaries, or 3 primaries plus 1 extended, that you are allowed on a drive.
>
>OK... I understand your example, so... considering that I have an entire HD
>for Linux (my 3rd) would its "path" be /dev/hdc6 or only /dev/hdc? (id'ing
>the whole drive only). This is where I was stopped in my installation,
when
>I was asked for the partitions such as the examples above... I didn't know
>what the heck it was asking, considering that I didn't have and didn't know
>how to set up these partitions in such a way that the OS could read it.
>
>>...For example, my "/" partition (root) is /dev/sda6, swap is /dev/sda7,
>/usr is /dev/sda8, /home is /dev/sda9 and >/usr/local is /dev/sda10.
You'll
>have a chance to set your partitions up like this during the install
>(assuming a CD, >here), using Linux fdisk,
>
>(Well, you just answered another question about which OS is using
>'fdisk'...)
>
>Obviously there is some meaning into having different partitions such as a
>user, user local, home, swap, and root... (may be too set in the DOS/WIN
>ways to understand why... YET!)
>
>>and I'd suggest that it's a good idea not to dump the whole installation
>into one partition. Just make sure you have about >500 mb of free space
>available (more is better, of course, but you can get by on less),
>
>my (the) drive that I am installing on is 800 MB, and planning on using
this
>one HD exclusively for Linux, but even so, what is the thought behind NOT
>installing the whole thing into one partition? Do you also mean that you
>should have 500 MB free AFTER install or prior to install?
>
>>...When you get to installing LILO (the LInux LOader), be sure to enter a
>line allowing it to boot Bill's product off of, I >am assuming, /dev/hda1.
>Then you can use LILO to boot to either system.
>
>does the install process prompt you for LILO editing, or is that advanced
>installation or does it come into play after you have completed the initial
>installation of the Linux OS? Also, does the LILO boot prior to Win95?
>Where does the prompt come into play requesting which OS you want to boot
>into? Or is that taken care of whether or not you boot from a floppy
(Linux)
>or from the HD (win95)?
>
>>...Keep a written log of what you do. Keep a log of how your drives are
>laid out, and write down every mod you make after >you're up and running.
I
>mean write 'em *all* down. Should you ever have problems, such a record
can
>prove to be >invaluable.
>
>Very good advise... but I'm way ahead of you on this one... started this
>'log' prior to making my boot disks <bg>
>
>------------------------
>Steve Van Oostenbrugge
>radar@cyber-wizard.com
>ICQ - 10707631
>
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