Brian York wrote: > > so i still need to have harddrive pluged into the > motherboard for booting puposes?
Yes. > If so i have an old HD could i put the /boot dir on it > and then have my 40 GB for /, /home, /usr and then the > 60 GB with swap and /ntwk (files for network) and > every thing would work fine. No. Put your Boot Manager on C on IDE0, ie reachable by the BIOS, and set the C partition to be the active partition. Once it gains control, your Boot Manager can then boot any other partition on any drive on any IDE channel. IMO there is little point in splitting up the Linux installation across more than 1 partition if all the hard drives are set up to use LBA, except a single shared /home partition makes sense when you have > 1 Linux installation/partition. This lets you upgrade Linux with the ability to fall back at any time without loss of data. > will the card work without any extra configuring or do > i have to do something? There are no jumpers or extra software (except in the BIOS), but you must use the special 80 conductor ribbon cables from the drives to the ATA 100 card. That's all! -- Ron. [au]
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