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Article #142Re: 1 Gig WD Problem
From: bill davidsen
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:14
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:14
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In article <D5Aw4C.75u@news.hawaii.edu>,
John Samuel Johnson <jsj@Hawaii.Edu> wrote:
| 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!!
1 - 2nd disk is probably hdc, not hdb
2 - it may not be supported, you might need a newer kernel
3 - because LILO uses the BIOS it may think the drive *is* hdb even
when the kernel doesn't. Help for the net on this?
4 - you can safely ignore the 2nd drive until you get Linux up and
working
5 - in no case would you use Linux fdisk on a drive with DOS only.
6 - for the big disk see EIDE.TXT about specifying physical vs. BIOS
geometry. I think you will need to specify physical, but I
haven't got a system like this to try.
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