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1 Gig WD Problem

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From: John Samuel Johnson
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 00:02
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I seem to be having major difficulties installing linux. I have two hard disks
on my system: a 327MB HD running off the primary I/O board and a 1GIG drive
running off a secondary EIDE controller(a GSI 18). I want to simply make
the 340MB drive a linux partition and the 1GIG drive a DOS partition(nothing
else). I have a boot disk with NET.GZ(I am installing over a network) and a
root disk with TTY144.GZ(or something like this). The kernel for the system
is 1.1.59. When I boot up and get to the # prompt(after logging in as root) I
do an fdisk /dev/hda and set up three partitions:
a 16MB swap space(even though I have 10MB RAM on my system)
a 225MB root partition
and the balance is an additional linux partition for accounts

Then I try fdisk /dev/hdb but I get an error stating that it isn't there.
I'm at a loss as to what to do. I need to specify the 1 GIG DOS partition in
the LILO configuration during setup. Anyone have any idea as to how this
can be accomplished and what my problem is? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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Sincerely,
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John Johnson

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