Re: [gentoo-user] how drives are mapped to files

2004-01-28 Thread Nicholas
On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 7:21 am, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi I'm currently in the following situation: I have two hard drives, the old one contains Mandrake linux and windows, and on the new one I'm install gentoo. They are connected to the motherboard with the same cable, the old one first, so

[gentoo-user] how drives are mapped to files

2004-01-27 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi I'm currently in the following situation: I have two hard drives, the old one contains Mandrake linux and windows, and on the new one I'm install gentoo. They are connected to the motherboard with the same cable, the old one first, so that the old one corresponds to /dev/hda and the new

Re: [gentoo-user] how drives are mapped to files

2004-01-27 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:21, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Now, finally, my question is: how all this affects the mapping of the physical drive to the files (/dev/hd*)? What happens if I install the bootloader before changing the physical configuration? is there a difference between lilo and grub

Re: [gentoo-user] how drives are mapped to files

2004-01-27 Thread mathieu perrenoud
Le Mardi, 27 Janvier 2004 09.47, Jani-Matti Hätinen a écrit : So, right now you have gentoo at /dev/hda, mandrake at /dev/hdb, and cd probably at /dev/hdc. After you make the switch the order will be gentoo at /dev/hda, mandrake at /dev/hdc (if it's master) and cd at /dev/hdd. That is,

Re: [gentoo-user] how drives are mapped to files

2004-01-27 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 11:16, mathieu perrenoud wrote: Le Mardi, 27 Janvier 2004 09.47, Jani-Matti Hätinen a écrit : That is, assuming that you'll plug the gentoo drive into the primary cable slot. (Which I recommend, since sometimes it's faster) that's not juste a matter of plugging