On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:21:57PM -0600, Charlie Kroeger wrote:
> Hi, got a problem...
>
> I've installed Debian 2.1 i386 on my second hard drive in a file system and
> a swap file I created with partition magic.
>
> I installed Debian by booting with a windows boot disk with a CD ROM driver
> and then loaded Debian from the CD. Everything went well. The installation
> "found" my file system and created a partition called /dev/hdc5. The swap
> was activated and given the designation: /dev/hdc6 and when it came to
> installing LILO, I agreed to what the installation suggested: /dev/dev/hdc2
Hi,
Please spell it out for us (the telepathy is weak):
/dev/hdc1 = what? how big?
hdc2 =
hdc5 =
hdc6 =
Map it right out for us . . .
A couple of things you probably know, but I will say it again anyway:
- There is a rule about the kernel has to be in the first 1024 cylinders
of the disk. On older bios this means 512mb, on newer ones, 8gb.
- If you have 2 or more IDE drives (including a cdrom) the kernel must
be on one of the first 2 IDE drives. So, if you have an /dev/hda hard
drive, a /dev/hdb cdrom, you can't put linux on hdc. Try swapping hdb
and hdc.
--
Thank you,
Joe Bouchard
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