Ok. here we go......
/dev/hda <-- primary hard drive "First IDE channel"
/dev/hda1 <-- primary hard drive primary partition
/dev/hda2 <-- primary hard drive extended partition.
/dev/hda5 <-- primary partition first logical partition
/dev/hda6 <-- primary partition second logical partition
etc......
/dev/hdb <-- secondary hard drive "First IDE channel"
/dev/hdb1 <-- secondary hard drive primary partition
etc....same as above
/dev/hdc <-- primary hard drive "Secondary IDE channel"
etc....
/dev/hdd <-- secondary hard drive "Secondary IDE channel"
Remember that in Dos, there 'can' be only 1 primary partiton per hard
drive....Well, linux doesn't care about that.
/dev/sda <-- First SCSI hard drive
same goes for the partitions.....
/dev/sdb <-- You guessed it --Second SCSI hard drive
etc....
## example ## I take NO responsibility for what happens to your computer.
SO, say you have two IDE hard drives with 1 physical partition, and an
extended partition that has 3 logical partitions in it. Both hard drives
being partitioned the same, and both on the first IDE channel.
So for clarification we have.....
/dev/hda <-- master hard drive
/dev/hda1 <-- win95 main partition c: drive
/dev/hda2 <-- extended partition
/dev/hda5 <-- 1st logical hard drive e: drive
/dev/hda6 <-- 2nd logical hard drive f: drive
/dev/hda7 <-- 3rd logical hard drive g: drive
/dev/hdb <-- slave hard drive
/dev/hdb1 <-- primary partition d: drive
/dev/hdb2 <-- extended partition
/dev/hdb5 <-- 1st logical hard drive h: drive
/dev/hdb6 <-- 2nd logical hard drive i: drive
/dev/hdb7 <-- 3rd logical hard drive j: drive
Now. Say for starters you want linux at the end of your second hard drive.
Copy all the stuff off of h: i: and j: drives to c: d: e: f: or g:
make sure there is nothing in h: i: or j:
During the Redhat 5.0 install you will come to the partition menu. I'll be
using 'fdisk' as my example as that is what i am used to using.
NOTE: At this point there better "NOT" be "anything" that you want to keep
on e: i: or j: If there is you "have" been warned!!
Choose /dev/hdb and then 'tab' to 'edit'
p prints your partition table to your screen and you will see something
like the following.
NOTE: I use SCSI, but i have 1 IDE hard drive (40 meg) for using loadlin to
get sound support.....thats a whole other story though. =)
Disk /dev/hda: 5 heads, 17 sectors, 965 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 85 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 964 40961+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Yours would look more like this.... Obviouly not though ;)
Disk /dev/hdb: 5 heads, 17 sectors, 965 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 85 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1 964 40961+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb2 * 1 1 964 40961+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
</dev/hdb5> * 1 1 964 40961+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
</dev/hdb6> * 1 1 964 40961+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
</dev/hdb7> * 1 1 964 40961+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Then simply delete your j: drive
d
7
then i: drive
d
6
then h: drive
d
5
Now delete your extneded partion.
d
2
NOW to make your 'swap' partition. As a general rule make your spaw
partition twice the size of your physical RAM.
So, if you have 32 megs of RAm then your swpa partition would be 64 megs.
n
p
2
enter the first available cylinder number here
+64M
NOW to change it to 'type' swap
t
2
82
NOW make the 'linux native' partition
n
p
3
enter the first available cylinder number here
enter the last available cylinder here
NOW to check that all is right type p to print your partition table to your
screen.
It should look somewhat like this...
Disk /dev/hdb: 5 heads, 17 sectors, 965 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 85 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1 964 40961+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb2 * 1 1 964 64+ 83 linux swap
/dev/hdb3 * 1 1 964 ???? + 82 linus native
When your sure you have done everything the right way type w to write out
the partition table and quit fdisk. You will then be returned to the Redhat
5/0 install.
Make sure you type m to see all the fdisk options so you understand the
commands i am using here.
Hope this helps. And BE CAREFUL!
Dan
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