gene hitz wrote:
>
> I finally purchased the Red Hat 5.2 and started to install it. However, when
>attempting to set up
> the partitions, it gives the warning that formatting the partition will destroy
>everything
> presently on it. I have 2 hard drives with plenty of room on them, presently
>partitioned off into
> many different partitions and a number of them empty. My partitions naturally now
>are named C:,
> D:, E:, F:, G:, etc however Linux sets up partitions HDA1, HDA2, HDB1 etc. How do I
>know where
> it's setting them up and how can I get them set up in the present empty partitions?
>How can I be
> sure it won't setup Linux partitions over my present partitions that now contain
>other programs?
> The documentation does not clear this up.
Dos USUALLY assigns the letters c,d,e,f sequentially to the DOS partitions on
the harddrive. That means if you convert e from DOS to something else like
linux you will now have c:,d:,e: and no f:
Linux by comparison gives each hard drive a number a b c d e and then numbers
each partition 1 2 3 4 5. And a hard drive is of course "hd". So if you have
3 drives and the first has 2 partitions and the second has 3 and the third has 4.
You would have something like (including the path):
linux if all dos
/dev/hda1 c:
/dev/hda2 d:
/dev/hdb1 e:
/dev/hdb2 f:
/dev/hdb3 g:
/dev/hdc1 h:
/dev/hdc2 i:
/dev/hdc3 j:
But if you converted the 2nd partition of drive 1 and the 1st partition
of drive 2 to Linux:
/dev/hda1 c:
/dev/hda2 linux
/dev/hdb1 linux
/dev/hdb2 d:
/dev/hdb3 e:
/dev/hdc1 f:
/dev/hdc2 g:
/dev/hdc3 h:
Hope this answers your mapping questions.
J.
