Re: External hard drive problem
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:28:17AM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > The problem with that is that it's much slower than a hard drive > install. Keep that in mind while you finish your coffee waiting for > OpenOffice to post it's first frame on your display... > > I've used www.sysresccd.org to resize an NTFS partition in an i386 > laptop. I can't guarantee it will work, but it might... On amd64, > perhaps NTFS is using different sizes for things? Or perhaps it's 64 > bit anyhow? You boot to XP, defrag the disk, boot the CD, type > 'run_qtparted', resize, boot XP and let it checkdisk, then boot a debian > installer disk and let it take the free space. Works great on i386 > (ymmv; make a backup); not sure about amd64. No, it is the same NTFS, since the laptops are shipping with 32bit XP, and as far as I have been able to tell, running both 32 and 64bit XP on a laptop they can read and write each others NTFS just fine. Len Sorensen
Re: External hard drive problem
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:32 +0100, Simon Capstick wrote: > > The easiest way for you to use Linux without touching the HD in your laptop > would be to simply use and run a Knoppix CD. You could use your firewire HD > to store all your linux related data. The problem with that is that it's much slower than a hard drive install. Keep that in mind while you finish your coffee waiting for OpenOffice to post it's first frame on your display... I've used www.sysresccd.org to resize an NTFS partition in an i386 laptop. I can't guarantee it will work, but it might... On amd64, perhaps NTFS is using different sizes for things? Or perhaps it's 64 bit anyhow? You boot to XP, defrag the disk, boot the CD, type 'run_qtparted', resize, boot XP and let it checkdisk, then boot a debian installer disk and let it take the free space. Works great on i386 (ymmv; make a backup); not sure about amd64. -- Karl Hegbloom (o_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] //\ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] V_/_ yahoo:karlheg
Re: External hard drive problem
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:44 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote: > >> > >> Please, could you help me ? > > > > I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire > > drive right now. (unless they fixed that) You may be able to get it to > > work installing by hand with 'Debian from scratch'. > > If the module is loaded (automatic or manualy) and the disk shows up > in /dev/discs or /dev/scsi/... then D-I should see it just fine. > Now that I think about it, it may have been that 'grub' and my BIOS could not, for some reason or another, boot my usb hard drive after using d-i to install to it. This was 4 to 6 months ago, and I only spent about 2 1/2 hours on it total. -- Karl Hegbloom (o_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] //\ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] V_/_ yahoo:karlheg
Re: External hard drive problem
Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote: >> >> Please, could you help me ? > > I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire > drive right now. (unless they fixed that) You may be able to get it to > work installing by hand with 'Debian from scratch'. If the module is loaded (automatic or manualy) and the disk shows up in /dev/discs or /dev/scsi/... then D-I should see it just fine. Firewire works on other archs and should work onamd64 too. Try to load the modules manually, partition, format and mount manually. If that all works but partitioning in D-I not then it is definetly a bug in the partitioner. The loading of modules would be a bug in hwdetect i think. MfG Goswin
Re: External hard drive problem
On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 10:45, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote: > > Please, could you help me ? > > I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire > drive right now. (unless they fixed that) You may be able to get it to > work installing by hand with 'Debian from scratch'. > > -- > Karl Hegbloom > (o_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > //\ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > V_/_ yahoo:karlheg Another method maybe to boot from a Knoppix CD where you should be able to access the disk, partition it, format it and install debian from Knoppix. The problem will come when trying to boot Linux from the firewire disk. Perhaps you create a Linux boot CD that can find the firewire disk and then start the boot process on it. This all sounds like advanced stuff so I wouldn't recommend it if you're just starting out with Linux. The easiest way for you to use Linux without touching the HD in your laptop would be to simply use and run a Knoppix CD. You could use your firewire HD to store all your linux related data. http://knoppix.org/ Simon
Re: External hard drive problem
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote: > > Please, could you help me ? I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire drive right now. (unless they fixed that) You may be able to get it to work installing by hand with 'Debian from scratch'. -- Karl Hegbloom (o_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] //\ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] V_/_ yahoo:karlheg
