Stan, > 1. Having suffered system crashes in the past I have developed the habit > (some would say "fixation") of backing up everything on my machines at > least once a month. Data gets the treatment at least once a week. Because
Ok, I can understand that. Interesting solution, and good way to get around your vicious circle. :-) > 2. Keeping track of more than 5 partitions is actually quite easy. That's I meant me personally, mentally. I'm sure the computer can keep track of them, it's me that's the problem. I have no idea where I stick stuff it there are too many partitions involved. :-) > 1. I failed to mention earlier that I was using Seagate's version of Disk > Manager to alter the BIOS so that the full 40Gb could be addressed. <snip> > 2. The most significant change has been the addition of the much larger > drive. However, the disk seems to be working properly under Window$ and > even partly okay under Linux, and Disk Manager is supposed to take care of > that (regardless of the OS) in the first place. Am I being too trusting? > Hmmm, you might be on to something here with this Disk Manager program and whether or not to trust it. Unfortunately, I've never used such a program, so I'm not sure how they work. Does it interrupt the boot process? How does it get its code in place before the O/S boots in order to work? > 3. Linux can read, write and execute limited files from the high end of > the 40Gb disk. The disk isn't inaccessible to Linux, at least the brain > damaged version that I can get running. Getting at that part of the big > disk doesn't seem to be a problem. > Hmmm, ok. So the Disk Manager must be loading. > One last item: It would appear that, during installation, Linux can write > to the root of any given partition but not to subdirectories. For > instance, I can see /usr (partition /hda17) but /usr/bin seems to be > empty. > Odd. Have you tried opening a shell during the install process (RedHat, right? Hit CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a prompt, I think) and just messing around, trying to create directories and files manually to see if you get any errors? > Peace, health, wisdom and wealth. Live long and prosper. > You too. :-) Ian
