[ILUG] Red Hat 6.1 on 7020CD

[Ross Lynch]

Hey,

You could boot from a linux boot disk and mount the drives manually to
see which one is empty.

just something like mkdir /tmp_mnt; mount /dev/hda1 /tmp_mnt and have a
look at the contents.

Ross


Jim Halpenny wrote:
> 
> Some infor for REd Hat 6.1 on a tosh 7020CD and 2 general questions :-
> 
> Question 1 :- I installed Red Hat 6.1 on the Tosh which already had Win 98
> running. During the installation routine (Gui version) I deleted an empty
> partition not in use by Win 98 and added 3 new Linux Partitions. It all
> worked fine. But I was unsure how to select the empty partition. Win 98 uses
> c:, d:,e: and f: I knew e: was empty and wanted to use it. When I got as far
> as disk Druid I saw the partitions but they were labelled as Devices HDA1,
> HDA5, HDA6,HDA7. Qestion : How do I know which one mapped to c:, D: e: etc.
> I guessed it was HDA6, but is there no way of confirming this ?
> 
> Question 2: I have to install Red Hat 6.1 on 8 identical PC's (600Mhz, PIII,
> 128Mb, 6GB HDD, running NT). Any tips on how to do it quickly ?
> 
> Info: I installed Red Had 6.1 on a Toshiba Portege 7020CD with docking
> station. It worked fine. For info I had to use Xconfigurator after the
> install as X would not run due to errors with the video I selected during
> the installation. Using Xconfigurator I selected a 'Non-Interlaced SVGA
> 1024x768 @ 60Hz ; 800x600 @72hz' and  it worked fine.
> 
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