Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-11-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Windows is already not allowed to be exported to Iran, so no native NTFS... BTW, I miss the computer shops in Tehran. It's really hard to find any specific hardware here. I simply buy online. I don't get it. If Windows is not allowed in Iran, how come the Linux

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-11-01 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oleg Kobets wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it?

Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: * I use Linux, so NTFS is not an option. * The friends in

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: They have a 250 Gees HD in Iran ? WOW :-) * I use

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:03:01AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it?

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: * First, how should I setup that under Linux? It's a Maxtor one. Both windows and linux detect it as 33GB. Which drivers should be loaded, ...? Some old award bios (old as in intel 440LX era and earlier) would hang the boot process if they saw

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread linux-il
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: * I use Linux, so NTFS is not an

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 31 2003, 10:03,Behdad Esfahbod: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: * I use Linux,

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Kobets wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: They have a 250 Gees HD in Iran ? WOW

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Diego Iastrubni
please shahar, no politics. , 31 2003, 21:24,Shachar Shemesh: Oleg Kobets wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how