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- More linux problems, I'm afraid...
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- I've now found the instructions.
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- I have got as far as partitioning the Harddisc. this is proving to be a
- pain in the arse.
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- I have three discs.
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- A quantum fireball 3.2Gb
- A conner CFS425A (420Mb)
- and a conner CFS210A (210Mb)
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- What I would like to do is install the linux frontend (ie. !linux et al)
- on the Quantum, and devote ALL of the other two drives to linux.
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- This would give me a 420Mb linux drive and a 210Mb swapdrive.
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- Should I leave a Midget RO partition on the drives? will I get errors from
- the filer if there is no RiscOS partition?
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- I intend to put the two linux drives on an ICS IDEFS based card.
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- My ICS board is partition aware. (apparently)
-
- anyway.
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- I put my 210Mb drive onto ADFS to use HForm on it (Hform only seems to work
- on ADFS)
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- I ran Hform.
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- I got stuck. I don't know how to shring the ADFS partition. do I set the
- drive as having fewer cylinders?
-
- anyway, after that (with or without the 'right' number of cylinders, I tried
- both) I ran !partman (after a complete reset) and tried to edit the
- partitions.
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- I typed in ADFS (the drive is still on ADFS for the time being)
- I typed in 5 (it is drive 5, atm.)
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- My drives info appeared, and this in the partitions box.
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- Partition Start sector End sector Size Type
- 0 416479 203Mb Free
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- Then I tried to create / edit partitions, wherupon, nothing happened.
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- I could highlight the one partition that appeared, but I could not delete
- or edit it.
- I could not create a new partition either.
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- HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!! (it's driving me nuts!)
-
- -Ian
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