UDB with external RZ26

Huw Davies (H.Davies@latrobe.edu.au)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:46:00 +1100

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I'm having lots of fun installing RedHat 3.0.3 on my UDB. The first effort
was to use the internal 340Mb drive, but as we all know it's far too small.
I found an old RZ26 at work and have put it in an external case and plan to
use that. I spent several hours installing Linux last night - the main
problem was that in using fdisk, it required the number of sectors,
cylinders and heads for the RZ26. I can easily find the number of sectors
and cylinders (from a DU disktab) but I'm still looking for the number of heads.

In the end I just picked a likely number (10) and everything seemed to be
OK. After finishing the install, I noticed that the /usr partition was only
512Mb, not the 800Mb or so I expected. I reran fdisk, which 'found' the
additional disk space. After creating a new partition with fdisk, I ran
e2mkfs. This was a mistake as it seems that I destroyed my root partition. I
suspect 10 is the wrong value :-)

Still Linux/AXP is lots of fun - much more so than Linux/i386 which is
getting too mature for my enjoyment level. The good news is that when I get
3.0.3 up, I'll move to version 4 via an FTP install from my laptop - now
that should be fun.

Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies@latrobe.edu.au
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