Re: potato install
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 08:42:57PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > As it turns out, this machine (at least mine, I don't know about all
> > of them) is a little unique in that the internal HD is hdc, and the
> > CD is hda.
>
> wierd, its funny i have yet to see a powermac that has hdc used, on my
> blue G3 the cdrom is on secondary master but the device is hde, unlike
> intel where it would be hdc. what gives?
>
> > this wouldn't be a problem, except the base system that I pulled down
> > (base-2_2.tgz from 2.2.13-2000-05-04) is completely missing
> > /dev/hdc* and hdd. I thought it was funny that it had hda, hdb, and
> > hde, f, g and h, but no c or d.
>
> probably because most machines don't seem to use these devices.. you
> should be able to create them yourself...
Umm, both machines I have installed on have needed hdc. On my bronze
powerbook, the CDROM is on hdc, and on my G4, the cdrom is on hdc, and the
zip drive is hdd.
Dave Brown
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