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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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> Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you |
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> won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to |
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> change your /etc/fstab and grub conf. |
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Alternatively, give your partitions Labels and reconfigure /etc/fstab to use |
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those. |
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Then you don't have to worry about the changes to the device-names. |
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Joost |