Re: ZipSpeak and talling it what drive to use

[Matthew Campbell <mattcamp crosswinds net>]

Here is my attempt to explain the hard disk naming system under Linux.

Under Linux, disk drives and partitions are not referred to by a
single letter, but by a device file name.  All file names start with
"/dev/", and there is a certain naming system which describes the
drive and the partition.  I'll try to make this clear with a few
examples:

/dev/hda1:  the first partition on the first I D E hard drive (the
"C:" drive on most PC's)
/dev/hdb5:  the first extended partition on the second I D E hard
drive (not very common)
/dev/sda2:  the second partition on the first SCSI hard drive

And so on.  The first letter after the "/dev/" is h for an I D E drive
(the kind used in most PC's) or s for a SCSI drive.  The next letter
for all hard drives is d.  Then the next letter indicates which hard
drive this is.  Finally, the disk partition is indicated by a number.
Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4, and extended partitions
have numbers of 5 and higher.

So now you can make an informed guess about what device file name to
put into the command in the linux.bat file that loads Linux.  If you
installed Linux on the C drive, try "/dev/hda1".  If it's on a D
drive, try "/dev/hda2" or maybe "/dev/hda5".

I hope this helps,
Matt

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