[linux-help] Re: Where is that drive?

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Jim Vetor wrote:
> 
> 
> I am running a dual boot system Windows 98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a 500
> mhz sytem with 128 meg of memory. I have a 15 gig IBM hard drive ATA 66 on
> IDE 1. On IDE 2 I have a ro CD ROM master and a CD ROM burner as secondary.
> 
> I just installed an older Western Digital 21600-32H drive to the IDE 1 as
> secondary. I have the jumpers set and all drives are seen in the BIOS.
>
> I planned to run Slackware 7.1 on the WD drive but when I try to run the
> Slackware installtion and get to the Partition screen (cfdisk) only
> /dev/hda1 is shown (which is my IBM 15 gig drive). D:\ which should be shown
> as hdb isn't shown on the partitions page at all.

When you ran the fdisk, or the cfdisk, did you specify to look at
/dev/hdb? I don't use cfdisk usually, rather fdisk, and you must do:
fdisk /dev/hdb.


> I tried running the Mandrake 7.2 installtion and when I got to the Partition
> table there was both drives, hda1 and hdb1 and I was able to install MD 7.2
> with no problems.
> 
> Since then I have tried everything I can think of to get Slackware 7.1
> installed on the WD drive. I even removed all traces of the IBM drive and
> set up the WD drive as IDE 1 master (jumper and BIOS). I was able to see the
> drive and started the install. As happens so often with Slackware the
> install went sour and after I finished I couldn't evern boot it with a boot
> disk. The install seemed to go okay until it was time to make a boot disk
> (wouldn't let me) set lilo (wouldn't let me) set password (wouldn't let me)
> etc etc. in other words it wouldn't let me do any configuration. I later
> remembered I had tried setting up the partitions as  /, /home and /swap and
> I have never been able to do that  in Slackware. The installation has to be
> in one big partition and a /swap partition. Any ideas why the above set up
> don't work?
> 
> Jim Vetor

I have been running Slackware for years and never once had the
problems that you are describing. Slackware works fine with multiple
partitions. I think the only time I had an installation crap out on me
was when I didn't make a partition big enough and I filled it up
before it was done. If you would like to log a step by step procedure
of what you are doing and what the symptoms are, perhaps I could
identify where the problem is.

Steve

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