SOLVED Re: New HDD install weirdness? (dd)

2007-04-22 Thread John Fleming
Try pulling out both hard drives and booting from CD. If you continue to get the beeping thingy you'll know its probably something with the bios. Well, it's not doing it anymore! I booted from the Knoppix CD again to observe the behavior, and it didn't do it. And when I rebooted the next ti

Re: New HDD install weirdness?

2007-04-22 Thread pinniped
The beeping may be a coincidental problem. The power supply is the usual culprit; remove your new power-hungry HDs and see if the system boots normally. You did make a mistake with copying your boot disk though; using 'dd' like that makes a copy that looks exactly like your old HD, which mean

Re: New HDD install weirdness? (dd)

2007-04-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:50:02PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > I am using Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-3-686 on a Dell 600SC, previously with > 2x40GB HDDs. (hdb was a backup - The entire system was on hda.) I wanted > to replace those HDDs with new, larger HDDs. > Does anyone see what's happenin

New HDD install weirdness? (dd)

2007-04-22 Thread John Fleming
I am using Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-3-686 on a Dell 600SC, previously with 2x40GB HDDs. (hdb was a backup - The entire system was on hda.) I wanted to replace those HDDs with new, larger HDDs. 1. I installed the first new HDD in the physical position of hdb. I booted with a Knopppix live CD

floppy-hdd install quicksand

2001-11-17 Thread Anirudh Shivaswamy
When I try to install from a Win98 FAT32 partition , booting the install program from floppy ,I get the following message after partitioning my hdd and initialising the partition: "No modules were found in /target/lib/modules/2.2.19pre17idepci that could be configured .Please install the modules

Re: Hdd install

1999-05-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Koyote wrote: > [cut] > Next step- I have a need to install from ground zero. For the 486 > boxes, I was consideing downloading the intallation to a hard drive in > this machine, then moving the hard drive to another machine and > running the install there. (Boot flom floppies, install from hdd)

Hdd install

1999-05-20 Thread Koyote
Sheesh! I'm starting to feel like a pest- Sorry about that install guide thing, it was an easy hack-around. Next step- I have a need to install from ground zero. For the 486 boxes, I was consideing downloading the intallation to a hard drive in this machine, then moving the hard drive to another