On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I installed a 40Gb Western Digital hard drive over the weekend into my PII > 300 machine as a second drive. My BIOS didn't recognise it, but Debian did. > Have you tried installing it as a second drive? Of course, if you want to > be able to boot from it, the BIOS will need to know about it. Check dmesg > output to see if it comes up as a device. > > - Chris My system is now as follows: 1 GB hdd as hda (debian is here) HP cd-writer as hdd I've tried all the combinations possible without changing the old setup. If I put that IBM harddisk as hdb the computer doesn't boot... Maybe I have to change the cd-writer into hdb? And put that IBM drive into hdc? I will try again this evening. My computer is at home, I'm writing this at my working place. -hv