Re: [aclug-L] Hard drive selection

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i don't know much about scsi's but adding an ide is a no brainer.
add the hardware, hook up the ide cable, tell the bios it's there.
boot linux, and edit your /etc/fstab to add the new drive.

normally this will be a line like:

/dev/hdb1               /home                   ext2    defaults        0 0

instead of /home you would need to put what ever location you wish to mount it at.
i have home because my home directories are all on a seperate drive.
 

on a side note what isp are you useing?
my wife is always asking about changing isp.
i'd like to know who not to get :-).
 

Sanjay Dhar wrote:

Hi all,

I currently dual boot b/n Linux and Windoze 98. I have a 4.1 GB EIDE drive
which is partitioned 50-50 to handle the above setup. I now want to add an
extra hard drive so that I can setup Sybase and a bunch of other stuff for
Linux. I'm looking for maybe an extra 4-5 gig space.I really wasn't sure
what type of a hard drive that I would need to go in for --- IDE or SCSI.
I'm still stuck with Windoze since my new ISP is using some kind of a
weird authentication scheme. That's why I still need to be able to dual
boot even after I add in a second hard drive.Any comments/suggestions
would be appreciated.

TIA

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