Most systems these days disabling the bios doesn't work. The OS will see the harddrive and you may have confusion rain on you if you are not aware! I wish it did work! I ve had the frustration many times.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Rebuild hda > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/07/2004 12:52:19 PM: > > > Hi all, > > I am getting messages that indicate that hda1 in my FC system is > failing. > > This machine was previously ourt proxy server and has a hard life so I > > beileve the messages! Easy enough, acquire new disk and rebuild. However > I > > have a second HDD that is 100% full with Video files, I do not want to > > delete these, I simply want to rebuild linux on the first drive and then > > re-mount it and re-share back to Windows clients. I have not done it > this > > way before, normally I let the install delete everything on all HDD's, > is > > this going to be simple or are there some gotchas? > > > > I could of course just disconnect the second HDD until the first is > > re-built, but felt there had to be a more logical method. > > It is a good practise, however I just usually disable it in the BIOS. I > don't like getting my hands dirty ;) > > Scott > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
