On Monday 26 August 2002 09:31 am, you wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 06:19:42 -0400, et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >is your win2k an ntfs drive? how much did you partition for win2k? is > > there free space left? when you partitioned it for win2k what tools did > > you use? > > My first attempts involved just attaching the raw unformatted drive. > If this doesn't work, how does someone go about adding new storage to > a Linux system? as with any network, the defination of "new storage" is probley part of the problem, in fact defining the new storage to the OS is about the whole problem, my guess. If it were me, I would have first decided what OSs I want, then go from there. if I had a computer that had a winblow OS on the first disk in the first hard drive, I would then add my new disk as a slave to the first IDE cable, still booting with with the Mandrake install CDrom, and install from there.
> After trying the drive as secondary master, then primary slave, I > grabbed a Win98 boot disk & put a primary partition on it, formatted > as FAT32. did you use MSdos fdisk for this? then format c: /s?sx Still no luck, although I'm not 100% convinced that Win98 > dealt with the drive correctly - it thought the drive was 51704Mb. > > Then I attached the drive to an existing Win2000 system, put a 120Gb > extended NTFS partition on it using the Logical Disk Manager Service > (Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer > Management->Storage-Disk Management). The idea was to just get > something on there so that Linux could see the drive - I'd then > scratch the partition during installation. Still no luck. > > Then rebuilt the server using just the 120GB drive & installed Win2000 > from CD - it was quite happy to see the drive & reformat it as NTFS. > It wouldn't work with the existing NTFS partition - presumably because > it needed a primary partition to boot off. > > Booting Mandrake from CD hangs at the same place after that though. > > The drive is set as "auto" in the BIOS. > The BIOS recommendation is for 14946/255/63 (which is what Linux says > shortly before it hangs). > When I overruled that, Linux noticed & said: > "hda: C/H/S=58853/16/255 from BIOS ignored" > > I've just tried the Win98 boot disk again. This time putting an 8GB > primary partition on it. Still no luck. > > I tried downloading the SuSE boot floppy - but that hangs on boot too > with rather less information than Mandrake: > SYSLINUX 1.62 0x3cb70305 Boot failed > ...is all it says! > > I got a private email pointing me at the Large Disk HOW-TO. I knew > that I was past the usual drive size limitations, but I didn't know > there was a new one at 137GB - ouch! But again, that shows no > limitations between 33.8GB and 137GB. > > A google search for "linux 120gb install" produces lots of positive > responses. So I know that there's not a basic problem in the kernel. > > I think I'm going to have to strip down another machine & try booting > Mandrake & the 120GB drive on that. I can't SEE that there can be a > limitation on the existing system, but this'll at least remove that > from the equation. > > Regards > > Jon
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