On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:14:06AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > Thanks for the other info on RAM, it will be very useful. > > > Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to > > have a swap partition on a different controller channel with each > > partition having equal priority. The kernel will use the partition > > which will provide the best performance. > > I don't know much when it comes to drives in Debian, so I have a few > questions: > > 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD. > Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now the > CD-ROM? I haven't actually used the CD-ROM since I finished installing, > so the only possible trouble spot might be booting.
The linux kernel itself won't care. What will care is your /etc/fstab file. You should update this to reflect your cdrom drive in a different place, as well as the new swap partition. This isn't too hard, maybe the file is easy to understand, if not, the fstab(5) manpage isn't too bad.. but some of the options you do have to lookup in the mount(1) (or is it mount(8)?) manpage. > 3. Since any drive I add will be old and slow (<200MB), is it worth it? Probably. :) -- Seth Arnold | ICQ 3172483 | http://cswww.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ I prosecute unsolicited bulk emails, using the RealTime BlackHole List. You should too. Ask me how, or visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/
