Re: Big hard disks
Larry Panzer wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped me on my last question. Now that I have decided on getting a bigger hard disk (I looking at about a 1GB) I have heard of or know of the following problems: Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and will it be standard IDE interface be able to access the full disk? Some BIOS's don't boot with a HDD over 500MB if they are older. My BIOS is (C) 1992 ZDS (Zenith Data Systems). it sounds like you have a problemI doubt a BIOS (c) 1992 will boot a 1 gig drive..also I doubt it would work well without the seup utility (ive had problems with NEWER BIOSes than that) from what I understand you could do this... keep your existing drive and add the new one... Linux (AFAIK) doesn't nee dthe BIOS fo rmuch beyond booting... so even if the BIOS doesn't know about the new drive linux will and then you can partition and format the drive and distribute its bigness however you wantsnip My current HDD is a Western Digital 125MB, therefore couldn't you just let the BIOS think it's only 125MB and have it read off the MBR to load LILO? from what I understand this SHOULD work fine... Then (from looking at some Mini-HOWTO's) you could tell LILO of the correct drive geometry? The final problem I have is once I can boot off this big drive, what is the best way to partition it? thats really hard to say...Ive never really found any good info on thatas I use 1 drive Ipartition as follows: (for my 3.2 gig drive) 1024 MB/ (root partition) swap is equal to physical RAMbut...I have 128 MB of RAM so... thats enough... for less I would got for about 2x RAM or more and... the rest is /home (because 90% of the data that I can not replace if it dies is n home directories)but thats just me Do I have to mount all these partitions to their directories every time I boot up, and won't this mess up the way files are installed by dselect, or the basic Linux install its self? Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated. during the install you can specify the partitions and where they map tothen it will make changes to /etc/fstab on boot mount will use /etc/fstab to tell it where to mount everything for you :) -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Big hard disks
Thanks to everyone who helped me on my last question. Now that I have decided on getting a bigger hard disk (I looking at about a 1GB) I have heard of or know of the following problems: Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and will it be standard IDE interface be able to access the full disk? Some BIOS's don't boot with a HDD over 500MB if they are older. My BIOS is (C) 1992 ZDS (Zenith Data Systems). I don't have the system config. floppy which changes settings in the CMOS via a DOS executable. The BIOS in this system seems to only load the OS and provided system services but doesn't have a setup utility built into it. Does this mean I'd have a problem installing a new hard disk? My current HDD is a Western Digital 125MB, therefore couldn't you just let the BIOS think it's only 125MB and have it read off the MBR to load LILO? Then (from looking at some Mini-HOWTO's) you could tell LILO of the correct drive geometry? The final problem I have is once I can boot off this big drive, what is the best way to partition it? Do I have to mount all these partitions to their directories every time I boot up, and won't this mess up the way files are installed by dselect, or the basic Linux install its self? Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated. Mark Panzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big hard disks
Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and will it be standard IDE interface be able to access the full disk? Some yes,i do have a EIDE hard drive pluged into a regular IDE interface (and the CD pluged as slave on the same interface). BIOS's don't boot with a HDD over 500MB if they are older. My BIOS is (C) 1992 ZDS (Zenith Data Systems). I don't have the system config. floppy which changes settings in the CMOS via a DOS executable. The BIOS in this sheesh,you need to tell the bios that you have a big drive (normaly,bios has provision for special drive who's the bios has no spec for (mine is a type 47 drive for example)) but you need a way to tell it,for the disquette,try contacting zenith if you can have a replacement one system seems to only load the OS and provided system services but doesn't have a setup utility built into it. Does this mean I'd have a problem installing a new hard disk? yep,if you dont have the disquette. My current HDD is a Western Digital 125MB, therefore couldn't you just let the BIOS think it's only 125MB and have it read off the MBR to load LILO? there may be possibility,i'll check for that. Then (from looking at some Mini-HOWTO's) you could tell LILO of the correct drive geometry? The final problem I have is once I can boot off this big drive, what is the best way to partition it? Do I have to mount all these partitions to their directories every time I boot up, and won't this mess up the way files are installed by dselect, or the basic Linux install its self? Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated. the best way for a first install is that when you'll buy the drive,the vendor will give you a disquette containing Ontrack Drive Manager (you can download it from some drive manufacturer web site too),format the drive,it doesn't matter if this utility format the drive as a dos drive because you'll have to format it a second time (in the installation of linux) make sure you have a bootable dos (or win95 or NT or whatever else that ontrack support) disquette too,when formatting (either in disk manager or in linux) choose only to have a single partition (simpler for now),i dont recommend trying to do several partitions for now,you'll have ample time to read documents and change your mind later on,if you need more information,mail me or the list. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
