On September 6, 2005 08:22, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 06 Sep 2005 14:35, Ted Garvin wrote: > > I have acquired a hard-drive that needs to be partitioned and > > formatted. How do I install it? > > Very simple. Plug an IDE cable into it (after checking if it is set to > 'master' or slave'). You can have up to two drives connected to an IDE > cable but they must be set differently.
Unless your first drive is set to 'cable select', in which case, the second drive should also be set to 'cable select'. Dell seems to like this configuration. > Then stoke up Mandriva and in Mandriva Control Centre select > MountPoints>Create,Delete,Resize,HardDiskPartitions > > Then just point to the drive and set up your partitions as you please. If > you select Advanced you will get more options. > > Mandriva does a very good job at setting up drive partitions. > > > derek -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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