Re: [aclug-L] Hard drive selection

[Craig Terhune <craigter@xxxxxxxxx>]

phrostie wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> > ---
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >       SANJAY DHAR
> >
> >       sxdhar@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >       http://www.cs.twsu.edu/~sxdhar
> >
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> --
> phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Oh I've slipped the surly bonds of dos
> and danced the skies on LINUX silvered wings.
> http://www.cottagesoft.com/~phrostie/cad-tastrafy
> 
> 
Can you also instead of /home or any other dir. mount it as root /. I'm
using my whole hard drive without any partitions