On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 23:52, David Schornak wrote: > I have a windows 98se computer with a 30gig and an 80gig hard drive in > it I would like to create a dual boot system leaving my 98se install > on the 30gig hard drive alone. the problem is when booting redhat 9 > and going through the install when I get to the point of partitioning > redhat 9 only sees the 30 gig harddrive and not the 80gig drive. what > can I do.
Is it safe to assume that the 80gb is the secondary drive? Also, did you have to load any software from the drive manufacturer in order to get the drive recognised by the computer (drive overlay); because if the drive is visible to BIOS, then the drive SHOULD be visible to linux; the drives are going to be labelled a tad bit differently than under a Windows environment - the primary drive is going to be /dev/hda - the secondary drive is going to be /dev/hdb (and so on) - partitions on the drives are going to be the same - first partition on the first drive is /dev/hda1 (and so on). If you're going to use the 80gb for linux, it's going to have to be partitioned and formatted during the installation (but I'm sure you already knew that); do you have access to any partition manager software that you can use to check the partitions as well? HTH - cheers! stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ All things being equal, you are bound to lose. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
