i did some basic research on the transfer modes, and even though i haven't absorbed all the info yet, i am guessing i should go with Max UDMA, which i can only assume will utilize the highest possible Ultra DMA mode available given the other system constraints (motherboard?). is there any reason that debian would prefer a different transfer mode? do i need to know more system information to make this decision?
i also think I understand the gist of the translation modes, which i take to be a bunch of klugy maps between hard disk addressing standards. i am guessing that it would be best if a bunch of unnecessary translations weren't going on every time debian tries to access the hard disk. is there a setting here that would be most appropriate to minimize superfluous translations?
thanks again in advance for help. i understand that a lot of these questions are probably the stuff that is taught in an intro computer science course; if they are too simple and general for the list, please let me know, and if you could recommend a decent overall reference i would appreciate it. i am switching from windows because (in addition to the fact that it just feels stupid and full of redundencies) it leaves the user completely out of touch with what is actually going on inside the computer. thus my need to understand every aspect of the debian install process, ground up.
fp On 16 May 2005, at 14:23, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2005-05-16, Adam Majer penned:Franklin Parlamis wrote:i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install. it is just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am tranferring from Windows platform). i wanted to go with 6 partitions, which would require using an extended type physical drive to put the logical drives in. using cfdisk, i made hda1 bootable and type 83 (2 Gb), hda2 type 82 (10 Gb). but when i tried to make hda3 an extended type (05, i believe) it would not let me. any thoughts? my bios is compaq 68602 v2.20.You don't make the extended partition. With cfdisk, you create either Primary or Logical partitions. This question is asked when you create a new partition. You can only have one block of logical partitions. If you try to mix them up too much you might end up with unusable disk space (until you repartition your drive)To follow up on this, If you have access to parted, you may find that it's a friendlier way to partition and format a disk. The help command actually is helpful, and the error messages when it won't let you do something are also pretty clear. -- monique Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org