Well I reckoned that now that I recently built A Tbird 1.55 gig
(overclocked) system for Mandrake, it was 'bout time to give Linux a
new fast harddrive to run on also. So I went and bought a IBM
7200rpm-2mb cache 30g drive to replace the old'n slow WD 5400 rpm I've
been runnin Linux on for years. I bought an OEM HDD that only came with
IBM's version of ez-bios on a floppy ($135 from MegaHaus Dickinson,
TX).
I knew ez-bios wouldn't be needed, or wanted, but I wasn't sure I
wouldn't need DOS fdisk to setup the drive. In a few minutes I had the
old drive out an the new one in place as hdb. Then I figured, what'a
heck, let's see just how good Mandrakes' DiskDrake is. So I put in my
8.0 1st CD and booted. No problem, went thru the install and at the
partitioning section, DiskDrake handled the new drive beautifully.
After install, I copied /home/tom back into place from my Whimblows
drive (hda, also an IBM 7200rpm-2mb) along with ManrakeUpdate rpm's I
saved and had the whole system just like it was before ... in just over
an hour, start to finish. Thanks Mandrake ;)
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
