Re: How To Add a New Hard Drive

[Paul Newman pgen com]

Hi. Read the Large Disc HOWTO.

Paul





dhale columbus rr com on 28/03/2000 03:11:25

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Subject:  How To Add a New Hard Drive




I've been running RedHat 5.1 (on x86) for a couple of years without problem.
I need to add a second IDE hard drive to the system. It will be in the
neighborhood of 20GB.

I've seen a few disjoint messages in the archives covering things like:
specifying the cylinders/heads/sectors at boot time; enabling/disabling LBA;
etc. Naturally, I want this to go as smoothly as possible; and I want access
to the full size of the drive (this isn't a dual-boot machine). I'm
comfortable with the physical aspects of adding the drive; setting
master-slave jumpers; etc.

What I need to know is:

- What are the preparatory steps required for this?
- What are the right BIOS settings to use for the drive?
- What are the specific installation issues?
- Are there any downsides to making this one massive partition?
- What's the best/easiest/"right" way to move /home to that new partition?

Thanks in advance,

Donnie


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