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On Thu, 9 May 1996, Meir Litmanovich wrote:
> Today evening I'm going to install Linux for one of my friends .I
> think I'll do it by hand (i.e plug his disk as second into my comp ,
> format ,mkfs ,addswap , .... ,copy all my files ... ,change /etc/fstab ,
BAD idea. you have to be really carefull with this, or you end up with no
rw permitions on /dev/null and all kinds of wierd stuff. why not install
by mounting his under yours, running the Slackware install, set the root
of the installation on /mnt (or wherever it is mounted) and do it normaly?
> But the question is something other :
> This man have Disk Manager on his disk (BTW ,my linux box is only one
> OS that can work with this disk also when it slave (M$-DOS ,Win 95 and NT
> couldn't )).
he? you mean NT didn't freak out with DM? humm...
I really advise you guys to get rid of DM ASAP, might do some good to
burn the original diskette while you are at it. LEAVE NO EVIDENCE. TRUST
NO ONE. <Mulder Out>
> So must I do something specific when repartitioning this disk
> or standart partitioning will work ?
there is no way, and believe me, I fought it a LOT, to make Linux grasp
the DM concept. BIOS based LBA translation transforms the whole disk, but
DM steals a whole cylender for it's devious plans, and on the N-1 that
are left, it creates a shifted fake disk, with the new parameters. Linux
does not know it should be looking for the partition table at a totally
non-standard sector, and so it sees no DOS partitions whatsoever, in fact
I remember it sees one huge OS-less partition. dangerous to play around
with Fdisk in such a situation...
with my 1 GB disk I had a simple solution. back it all up, install a
512Mb DOS partition with no DM and allocate all the rest for Linux (DOS
won't see it anyway)
> If it'll help whenever I boot linux with this disk slave it writes
> something like
> hdb WDC .... 64+[128/64/63] (the numbers aren't really numbers ) .
> Any ideas ?
humm... I never saw this... maybe now it DOES support the sector shift?
try the IDE-HOWTO, or maybe there is onw specifically about large disks.
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