From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: SLS and 2nd IDE HD Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 23:32:42 GMT
mmurphy@iat.holonet.net (Mark Murphy) writes:
>Hi, I just got SLS straight from Softlanding and am having a problem
>installing it. I have two IDE hard drives (C=40Mb, D=50Mb). When I boot
>from disk a1, it lists both /dev/hda and /dev/hdb when it lists all of the
>other system stuff (serial ports, etc.). However, after putting in a2 and
>running fdisk, fdisk only seems to recognize the first drive (at least,
>that's all the p command prints out).
>Can one install Linux on the second hard drive? Not only do I want to be
>able to boot DOS/Windows from drive C, but I need the room on the larger
>hard drive to fit base+X.
yes, you can.
when you say 'fdisk' that means 'fdisk /dev/hda'.
if you want the second disk, run 'fdisk /dev/hdb'.
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