Hi, >Arup Kanjilal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >About the dying hdd, hope you tried swapping power >cables.
actually, I even tried plugging my hdisk into another computer. I was not recognised. I wanted to know what could be the possible reason for such a sudden breakdown. > >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 My / is just 350MB. I wanted to backup all my important data and and then reorganise all the partitions. I cant boot in dos bcos the floppy drive is not working. Any suggestions ? Thanks and bye Sourangshu >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 > - This email was sent via webmail.caltiger.com - Checkout http://www.caltiger.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
