yes the 80 gig is the secondary drive but disk druid only recognizes it as a 32 gig hard drive now after initialization. is how do I get Linux to recognize the it as 80 gig? the bios says it is an 80 gig hardrive and recognizes its drive number.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: Re: redhat 9 install > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
