Re: big IBM harddisk => works now!

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, virtanen wrote:

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v> 2) I used 'resc' and 'root' disks to start installation process to get
v> into 'initialising a harddisk'. Is there any other tool available to do
v> this? 

cfdisk /dev/hdc
mke2fs /dev/hdc? - where the ? is the partition number ..
 
v> 3) Now the only possibility to use cdrom seems to be that it must be
v> connected as 'hdd'. If I put it as hdb, the system hangs while booting... 
v> Maybe I have to change bios for that as well? Anyway my cd seems to be
v> working with the Big One on the same secondary interface. 

i'm not sure about this but i think that will slow your drive down a bit
.. because big disks support ata33/66 or udma .. cd drives usually don't .. but
it shouldn't be that bad ..

v> 4) If I want to mount my Big One automatically while booting the box, how
v> to do that? 

edit /etc/fstab and add the partitions and mount points there .. man fstab
should tell you how to do it if you can't figure it out from the existing stuff
in the fstab ..

                                                Dingo.


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