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In article <D5Aw4C.75u@news.hawaii.edu>,
John Samuel Johnson <jsj@Hawaii.Edu> wrote:
>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

>
>Then I try fdisk /dev/hdb but I get an error stating that it isn't there.
                        ^
------------------------| for the second interface this should be /dev/hdc

I think the drives are named as follows

	/dev/hda  }  Primary IDE controller 
	/dev/hdb  }

	/dev/hdc  }  Secondary IDE controller 
	/dev/hdd  }

this assumes ... the appropriate nodes are present in /dev (i.e. /dev/hd[cd])
and the kernel on the disk supports a second IDE card. 
[I'm afraid I can't tell you the exact commands but I think theres a script in 
the linux source tree /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/makedevs ?? or something 
that will create the device entries for you, or read 
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/readme.ide]

You could just install everthing _without_ bothering with the dos partition 
and then add an entry into /etc/mtab & /etc/fstab (this is all the setup is 
doing) There is no need to setup dos initially.

/etc/fstab add:
/dev/hda1        /dos/c      msdos       defaults

/etc/mtab add:
/dev/hda1 /dos/c msdos rw 0 0

this assumes you have also created the blank directories /dos & /dos/c (if this
 is what you want to call your dos partition).
And as long as msdos support is compiled into the kernel (almost guaranteed to
be)

jsj@Hawaii.Edu (John Samuel Johnson) writes:
>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). 
[...snip...]
>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!!

Your first problem: As you said, your 1gig drive is on the second controller
card and therefore not the 2nd drive in your system.  Linux (unlike dos)
assigns the drive names based on where they actually are, rather than on how
they are encountered.  Therefore your drives are /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. 
Your second problem: Why are you trying to fdisk a DOS-only drive under Linux
anyway??  You should fdisk and format it under DOS, not Linux.

To get LILO to see it, just put in your LILO config file:
other = /dev/hdc1
  table = /dev/hdc
  label = dos

There is no need to use Linux fdisk to get LILO to see the drive.
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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.

davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:

>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.
7 - OnTrack Systems software was used to install large hard disk!

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In article <3k9kkd$g6o@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> davidsen@tmr.com writes:
>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.

Nope.  For a better picture of this, at least with linux 1.2.0, 
try the README.ide file that is included in the kernel source tree.
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well, I think there have been enough posts of the
various reasons you might have been having trouble,

but I still want to know if the subject is for real ...

are you really using a Winchester ?

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