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Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: |
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> 2010/8/27 J. Roeleveld<joost@××××××××.org>: |
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>> On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Hi folks, |
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>>>> I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to |
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>>>> push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 |
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>>>> motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE |
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>>>> drivers. This is what I have currently: |
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>>>> hda Actual hard drive OS on this |
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>>>> hdb Actual hard drive Not in use |
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>>>> hdc Actual hard drive home partition |
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>>>> hdd DVD burner Duh! It's a burner. |
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>>>> sda Actual hard drive connected through a SATA PCI card. Misc stuff. |
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>>>> So, hda has the Gentoo OS on it and hdc is my /hone directory. I have |
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>>>> videos, mp3's and various other data on sda. Currently hdb is not being |
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>>>> used, since for those who keep up with my threads would know, it is the |
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>>>> one that is terribly slow. Something along the lines of 10Mbs/sec or |
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>>>> something of that nature. It's just hard to get out of the case right |
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>>>> now and I can't get to it with a hammer either. :/ |
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>>> You can at least disconnect it then. Right now all it does and eat |
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>>> power, heat the case and make noise :-/ |
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>>>> My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become |
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>>>> sdb; hdc will become sdc; hdd will become sdd; and sda will become sde. |
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>>>> Would that be a logical expectation? |
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>>> I'd say sda will stay as is, hda will become sdb, and so forth. |
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> This entirely depends on the way your BIOS orders your drivers, as far |
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> as I know. It could be either way. But, we all know how flexible grub |
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> is. You can just use TAB to autocomplete and try. All you need to boot |
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> is your root fs, after that fdisk -l will reveal all the info you |
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> need. fstab is another story, that might cost you an extra reboot into |
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> a livecd to fix it. |
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> But, using labels as said will fix all the problems (beforehand) for |
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> you, as said. |
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I have heard of the labels before but never used them. I need to google |
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that and see how that is done. |
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Another thing that I hadn't thought of, grub. I didn't even think about |
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grub would have to be edited. That would have been interesting when I |
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tried to boot up. |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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