-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 10.11.2004 at 09:52 +0000, michael wrote:
> The 2.4 CD set doesn't support the 250Gb HD. I am reluctant to go > unstable for my server. Anybody else help? Specifically, can I just > plow ahead with ''woody'' on the 137Gb it does see and then upgrade > kernel to a stable version that will see 250Gb and then partition the > remainder? (And if not, why not?) Cheers, Michael This is what I did - and will work so long as your ROOT partition is not going to be bigger than 137GB. I wanted most of my disk space to be used as the /home partition. 1. Install Woody as normal, making only a small root partition for the installation (I did 9GB for / and 9GB for /var I think); 2. Download or build a more recent kernel (apt-get install kernel-image-...) - anything past 2.4.20 has lba48 support for > 137GB disks. Debian packages of earlier kernels may have this support backported, but you can get more recent kernels out of Woody directly; 3. Reboot - you now have lba48 support; 4. Partition your disk - i.e. add the new, large partition for /home; 5. Format this new partition and add it to /etc/fstab ... Dave. - -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBke30nhBnac0o2pIRArhtAJ9jTSmSPxwzQt21mffl33sjEfak6ACfWCY6 hver4W3WEu0XkXc6lWgwVTU= =BHI5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
