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- The following message pertains to the designation of disk partitions
- as related to the installation of Linux 0.12 with DR DOS. It would
- not hurt for anyone installing Linux to read this.
-
- PLEASE NOTE: This message refers to Linux 0.12. BE AWARE that under
- Linux 0.95 the numbering of disk partitions have been modified slightly.
- Please refer to RELNOTES.95 for details. The main point of all this is
- to make sure that both YOU and Linux are referring to the same disk
- partition when it comes time to invoke the Linux command `mkfs'. Otherwise
- you may inadvertently destroy another partition. Note that Linux has
- `fdisk' but it is read only. This will show you in a non-destructive way
- how Linux views your hard drive. If you run Linux's fdisk and nothing is
- displayed the most likely problem is that you are not using an AT type
- controller OR your CMOS is configured for `no disk present' (this is
- possible with controllers such as Seagate ST22 which contain their own
- BIOS. The fix is to correctly configure your CMOS setup).
-
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- BBS: Arlington Software Exchange
- Date: 03-06-92 (01:35) Number: 2793
- From: JOE DOUGHERTY Refer#: NONE
- To: ALL Recvd: NO
- Subj: LINUX INSTALLATION Conf: (46) Unix
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-
- Here's something interesting that happened to me while
- attempting to install Linux on my second drive.
- My Northgate 386 is equipped with a 110 meg RLL drive as C,
- and a second 68 meg RLL drive. I decided to use the smaller drive for
- my Unix learning experience <G>.
- The DOS drive runs DR-DOS 6.0. Whenever I tried to install the
- Linux boot and root on the hard disk, it always came back that it
- couldn't access the 20 meg primary partition I created on the second
- drive. The rest of the drive was an extended partition with Windows in
- a logical drive. I noticed that Linux's fdisk table showed the drive
- numbers as hd4 (the C: drive), hd6 and hd7 (the two partitions on the
- second drive.
- I decided to install Coherent on the second drive, alongside
- the DOS partition containing Windows. After making the necessary
- adjustments, I discovered, through Coherent's fdisk table, that DR-DOS
- didn't always use the first two partitions on any drive. The table
- showed four Coherent devices, but coherent was on the third one (hd6)
- and the extended was hd7.
- I moved the Windows stuff to the C drive and wiped the second
- drive clean. Before installing anything, I decided to try a different
- fdisk, so I dug out my DOS 4.01 version and did the fdisk. This
- worked!. I now had four partition possibilities, with the primary as
- the first one.
- I was then able to install Linux on the primary, Coherent on
- the secondary, and leave Windows on the C drive (until I decided to
- erase the damn thing.
-
- The moral: if you have DR-DOS, check and fix your drive
- partitions before trying to install Linux.
-
- BTW, is there any way to boot Linus from the hard disk yet? I
- have 0.12 and the five binary images (only one installed so far). I
- found all the Linux stuff on Exec-PC, in case anyone's looking for it.
- I'd like to get around that floppy boot thing, since the Coherent
- master boot allows you to pick the partition at boot up time.
- Any info would be appreciated.
-
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