Ian Comley writes: > > I am planning to install a second hard disk on my machine and install Linux on > that. I wondered if some bored individuals could answer a couple of simple > questions: > > Is installing a second hard drive easy - ie. do I just need to buy a new drive > and no other hardware, or is there something else involved?
I assume your talking about IDE drives. Well you need an IDE cable with 2 connectors obviously, and the drive you buy needs to be able to be master or slave to the other drive, this doesn't always work with some drives. IDE is such a wonderful "standard" ain't it ;) Do NOT install a Conner disk as slave. Last time one of my clients did that it cost him BIG time. [I never saw such bizarre filesystem corruption -- and neither did e2fsck :( ] -- Christopher J. Fearnley | UNIX SIG Leader at PACS [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (Philadelphia Area Computer Society) http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Design Science Revolutionary ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Explorer in Universe "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller | Linux Advocate
