On 07-Nov-05 Anthony Anson wrote:
I've just cleared a 24 gig partition on hda (E:).
Is that a "smiley" indicating "I'm basicall happy but also frowning heavily"?
Win 2000 Pro on C: - some progs and saved stuff on F:. For some reason, Windows allocated D: to the zip drive... I might re-allocate drive numbers sometime to coincide with the Linux list. How will Debian do it?
There is a strict hardware correspondence, on the IDE channels, between drives and Linux names.
IDE1 Master -> /dev/hda IDE1 Slave -> /dev/hdb
IDE2 Master -> /dev/hdc IDE2 Slave -> /dev/hdd
Then, within each /dev/gd[abcd], there are partitions /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc., which are established when fdisk is run.
So, unless you physically change the hardware configuration, the Linux names will remain unchanged.
A very similar correspondence obtains on SCSI channels, only the correpondence (while similarly unique) depends on channel number and SCSI device number ("LUN").
In Windows, on the other hand, it's all schizophrenia.
You get your new machine with one nice hard drive as IDE1 Master, partition the drive into 3, say, and install Windows. You then get "drives" C:, D:, and E:. Then, later, you expand and install a second hard drive as IDE1 Slave. Windows now assigns this to Drive D:, pushing up your previous partitions to be E: and F:, and the 2nd partition you've made on your new drive is called G:. So you have
IDE1 Master: C: E: F: IDE1 Slave: D: G:
Is that quite clear ... ???
I might also fit a SCSI CD ROM so I can copy CDs at least. I haven't got a SCSI CD/DVD drive.
Q: when cfdisking it for Sarge, how will I know (for *CERTAIN*) which one to write to?
It's hardware-configuration dependent as above. No nonsense with volatile names.
I have a practice, with my DOS/Win partitions, of establishing mount points for them by 'mkdir /C:" and similar for /D: etc.; (and /A: for DOS floppies) then with suitable fstab entries it's easy to
mount /C:
and then access it on the lines of
ls /C:/Wundows/"Program Files"
which keeps the brain cells in line with WinThink.
Cheers, Ted.
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