Installing a new hard disk

[Asheville Joe]

Thanks.  I got the jumpers right to start with (been down this road 
before).  Fixing fstab as Bob suggested got booting to work again.  Now 
I just need to format it etc.

Joe

Cyber Source wrote:

> If you cannot even boot correctly, check your jumper settings 
> (master/slave) on the drives, also, even if your drives are set 
> correctly with the jumpers, your BIOS, if not set for auto on the ide 
> channels, may be set for the previous drive. That drive being hdb, 
> would not only have to have the jumper set to slave but the other 
> drive, hda, would have to be set as master. But since your other hdb 
> drive boots ok, I would check the BIOS.
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 22:44, Asheville Joe wrote:
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>>/Cyber Source wrote:
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>>> after a quick glance at this, did you partition and format the drive?
>>> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:14, Asheville Joe wrote:
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>>No, that's the step I'm trying to get to, but 1) I can't even boot 
>>normally when I put it in as the second (unmounted) drive and 2) I'm not 
>>sure exactly what commands/procedure to use to do that.  I knew how to 
>>do it in Windoze, but this is the first time for Linux.
>>
>>Joe/
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