About the dying hdd, hope you tried swapping power cables. About the 20GB problem, if you're trying to install linux onto that, I'm assuming you're ready to reformat / repartition. Well just make your primary a nice little 750MB for mounting / (if you need more than that, you're possibly doing something wrong on your partition layout scheme), and allocate the rest /boot, /usr, /var, /home, /tmp and swap according to your needs. That'll definitely clear all root partition problems.
BTW, I havent tried this in a long long while, since my root is always below the 1GB mark, but I do believe that lilo works happily for all partition sizes. But then again I may be wrong. However I still do believe in partitioning your disk the unix way. Arup --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > A very 'Shubho Bijaya' to everybody. > > I in deep mess now. I had 2 hdds, one 4gb and one > 20gb. I used the 4gb > disk as my book disk ( for both windows and linux) > and the 20 gb disk > as the data disk. > > The other day I found that my 4gb disk and my floppy > drive are not > working. Can anybody tell me why this happened. the > only combining > factor is that both were connected to the same power > cable. > > also, I cant boot my computer now. I tried to boot > from the linux cd, > and install linux on a freed up partion, but i guess > bcos of the large > disk problem it didnt work. > > please give me some advice on what to do. > > Thanks > > Sourangshu Bhattacharya > > > - This email was sent via webmail.caltiger.com - > Checkout http://www.caltiger.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
