I believe this is my hd:
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-015&depa=0
samsung 7200 prm
SATA
160 gig hd
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
Sorry- I wasn't intentionally ignoring your thread. Holidays have been hectic both business-wise and family-wise, and getting back to this thread is one of the things that fell through the cracks.
Unfortunately- I can't (even with the info you've given on the drive) know for certain if it comes with overlay software pre-installed, or if that is even the root of the problem.
Also (and again unfortunately)- it's dinner time in my end of the world, and given that I (and all other members who work here) do so on a totally volunteer basis, I need to log off and take care of "real life" issues such as feeding the kids.
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
well,
I do appreciate all of the support you have given me thus far.
I think my problem is with my ide controllers and I am going to update my mobo's bios to see if that helps.
On the contrary -- I have an inborn joy that you are off the threads and spending quality time with those things that are timeless importance.
enjoy ~
-Soral 3.0
however -- I will still keep using this post and I will declare whether or not flashing my bios helps or not.
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
Ok- do keep us posted, and thanks for understanding the real-world vs. online dillema; part of me thinks that if it would pay for the rent and food, I'd make online support a full time job. But.... dat just not da way da cookie crumbles.
:)
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
<sigh>
mobo's bios are updated
live cd still not working...
and stopping at the same place....
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
Yay!
I can boot linux now!
Apparently, because I have an asus mobo -- I didn't have to configure the sata drives as raid in bios before installing windows -- however it is required to run linux.
I also enabled the SATA boot rom.
dunno if it helped or if that was my problem...
Anyone know what that is?
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
I didn't have to configure the sata drivesas raid in bios before installing windows -- however it is required to run linux.
Drives, as in plural? Everything you've posted so far indicated that we were only dealing with a single hard drive here; is that not the case?
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
Doh.
No -- it's a typo
I was dealing with a single SATA drive.
sorry for the confusion
but somehow the livecd's work...
do you know what the boot rom is?
-Soral 3.0
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
hmmm...
for some reason,
qparted refuses to see my hard drive...
Also, when I try to reinstall windows from bootup -- windows can't see any mass storage.
-Soral 3.0
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
do you know what the boot rom is?
Why do you ask?
Very basically, the Boot ROM is a Read-Only Memory circuit (usuallly a separate chip) which stores low-level instruction code (pre-programmed, permanent, and architecture-specific) that is executed when a computer first starts up. When the CPU is powered on, it reads and runs the code stored in the Boot ROM. That code is then responsible for locating a boot device (floppy, CD-ROM, Hard drive, etc.) and loading the next stage of boot code located on that device. Most network cards also have a Boot ROM, which allows a networked computer to be booted remotely.
I don't know why your drive is suddenly not being detected; does it show up correctly in the BIOS?
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
thanks for the explaination of boot rom -- I ask because I had no idea what it is and google failed me.
Well, I believe that I solved the "failure to see the hard drive" problem...
My asus mobo has two serial ata configurations in the bios -- Enhanced and Compatability.
It was set on the enhanced mode -- which was apparently designed to work better with NT and XP.
The compatability mode was designed for legacy os's -- and I guess linux is in the legacy os's.
Anhow it works -- I'm happy.
However -- If you will still bear with me -- I still have some partitioning questions.
The extent of my partitioning knowledge is that I know how to resize the windows primary partition in qtparted to create a separate 20 gig partition.
I got that -- But when I get to the prompt with the options on how to FORMAT that 20 gig partiton -- I get extremely intimidated.
I want to install linux in this partition -- but I don't know what options are optimal for a linux installation in that partition...
Like, should this be a primary or extended partition?
what partition type should it be? (ex3? ex2? FAT? etc.)
and I don't understand the concept of unallocated space...
I need to relearn how to use google....
-Soral 3.0
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
The answers to all of your partitioning questions are really much too lengthy for me to post here in one big lump-sum, but over the past number of years I (and others) have posted these answers for people who were trying to set up Win/Linux dual-boot systems. Give a read through the info in the following links and (if your brain hasn't exploded as a result of doing so), get back to us with any questions that you have:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=1055016&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Installation/How_to_Create_a_Multiple_Partition_System.html
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=1055020&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending
The multi-boot/multi-OS HOWTOs at http://www.tldp.org
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
Oh, and just FYI: Google has a Linux-specific search section. Instead of just going to www.google.com, go to www.google.com/linux instead. ;)
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
sweet -- thanks for all the resources
I can't seem to find them myself...
Thanks for the linux-specific google engine!
-Soral 3.0
Soral 3.0 0 Junior Poster in Training
yay!
I got my drive partitioned!
my 160 gig hd is now two drives -- one ntfs -- one ext3
I now have win xp and xandros opencd linux installed on my system
thanks for all you help DMR....
the Wobat of Happiness sniffles upon your good deed.
-Soral 3.0
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
Very cool; glad you finally got it going, and the Wombat is glad that the snuffling helped! :mrgreen:
Now that you can actually get started using Linux, here's a site you're really going to want to bookmark: The Linux Doncumentation Project.
The place has tons of free online (and downloadable) guides, FAQs, HOWTOs, and other resources that cover everything from basic system configuration to advanced networking topics.
NicAx64 76 Posting Pro
I want to install linux in this partition -- but I don't know what options are optimal for a linux installation in that partition...
Like, should this be a primary or extended partition?
what partition type should it be? (ex3? ex2? FAT? etc.)
linux cannot be installed on a extended partition ( extended means a container for the logical partitions)
, so it should be
a primary partition or logical partition .you can create extended partition and create logicals inside it.
well today linux supports every file system.but making it ex2 and mount it as / will make your life easy.
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strobon 0 Newbie Poster
why does not use gparted. Its proven usefull.
i suggest download the image and burn to cd or ufd and boot..
there you go...resize windows partition and create a 2 partition (root n swap).
Darkflib 0 Newbie Poster
Gparted is available as a live CD which can do most of what PartitionMagic can do... and is free.
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