I've been thinking about a DSL HD install on a 1997 vintage HP Kayak desktop. Before going through the pain (and cost of purchasing partition magic or similar) of partitioning the scsi HD (formatted NTFS), I've been testing things out using the DSL floppy/USB install.
After boot, it appears that DSL has not (automatically) found either of the two scsi HD or the two scsi CD drives. I can manually mount the HD as sdb1 and sdc1 & manually mount the CD as sr1 and sr2. The scsi controller is an Adaptec AIC-7880 integrated on the motherboard.
Given the above, is there any reason why DSL would not boot in a dual-boot setup? It would be difficult for me to partition the drives so that DSL is the first partition on a drive, would this be a problem?Can parted resize ntfs yet?
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After boot, it appears that DSL has not (automatically) found either of the two scsi HD or the two scsi CD drives. I can manually mount the HD as sdb1 and sdc1 & manually mount the CD as sr1 and sr2.
What do you mean by that - can you explain this a bit more?
For a dual-boot setup - I don't see why not. A problem may come up during installing the bootloader, but you won't know until you try :PIf you can manually mount the drives and cdroms that would imply that DSL has found and loaded the aic7xxx.o
There are quite a few scsi modules in DSL. I was using an acient aha1540 and am currently using a 2930. I have also used the first scsi card supported by liniux the ncr53c815.
If your scsi cdrom is not capable of booting then you become limited to only a boot floppy then you will have a subset of the supported boot time scsi modules. But then you can always open up minirt and add/delete for your particular requirements.Thanks for the suggestions - the aic7xxx module loads and I can read and copy from the drives so I guess I'm in good shape. Now to partition a drive...I have installed three SCSI HD's to my computer. DSL loads aic7xxx.o but I cannot find those disks when the system has booted up. SCSI id's for those disks are 0, 1, and 2. MY SCSI card has id 7. I've tried to cfdisk /dev/sda ...sdb ... and so on but without any result. Any help? I belive this is just something very simple but I haven't noticed it yet...Next Page...
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