| Stephen Gran on Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:10:15 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:38:56PM -0400, George Langford said: > Hello Plug ! > > Here's some more information. > > The BookPC's BIOS is perfectly happy with both the 40GB and 80GB > Maxtor drives on the same cable - The 80GB's in the middle as > Slave and the 40GB's at the end as Master. That's a good start - if the BIOS is happy with the drives and finds them during the IDE scan at boot time, linux should be able to handle them, if they aren't completely hosed. > What I'm discovering is that Red Hat Linux chokes when it tries to > detect the 80GB drive - and there's no opportunity to mount it along > with the floppy drive when I right-click on the display [desktop ?]. > I need to work out a command-line syntax to tell Linux what file > system to look for. That's when I get all glassy-eyed. (as root): mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt (I'm assuming you only have one partition on your drive, and it is the slave on the first IDE cable) > Thanks to Jeff for helping me decide that the W98SE/WinXP mess > wasn't worth saving. None of the participants here, on Experts-X, > or anywhere else on the 'Net ever solved the sorts of error > messages that I was getting - Hall.dll hosed; fdisk giving me > the rong disk size, proprietary file system. Heck, I even tried > deleting the Windows directory from the other 80GB drive - it > let me try & went through the motions, but it was all still there > to get in the way of a W98SE reinstall after all was said and done. Good luck fixing a severely broken Win98 install - I've never succeeded with anything short of burnt-earth approaches. 'deltree' from real DOS - not the sorta DOS shell that you can get from within Windows - will usually do it, but Windows won't let you. Good luck, and HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | In the future, you're going to get | | steve@lobefin.net | computers as prizes in breakfast | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | cereals. You'll throw them out because | | | your house will be littered with them. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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