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Easily Consolodating HDs?
Windows version is 98 second edition w/ PLUS installed, linux version Mandrake 7.2... I'm using Grub as the boot manager. The main reason I'm attempting to do a kind of disk copy is because the 98 Plus CD I have is corrupt, due to an error while making the backup, and it took me about 12 hours...- zaimorkai
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Easily Consolodating HDs?
For a recent eternity, I have had a 7G hd that through a major initial mishap I have been using a 2G(c) partition and a 5G(d) partition. recently it was split again, to contain windows/apps on the 2G, 1G for linux mandrake 7.2, and 4G for misc stuff. As can be imagined, the 2G section, which...- zaimorkai
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Removable Disks in Linux Mandrake 7.2
It helps a little... it helps me understand it better :) but it's linked to hdc, which should be right i think... i've got one physical drive (ide) in 2 partitions (3 counting linux) and then the atapi cdrw... when i do the ls for /dev/cdrom it says its mapped to hdc, and when i try to mount it...- zaimorkai
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- Forum: Linux (server)
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Removable Disks in Linux Mandrake 7.2
I recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, dual booted with Windows 98... both OSs work (well, windows as good as it can anyway) but for some reason, while I can access both my CDROM (Acer 8x4x32 CDRW, detected correctly by both windows and linux) and Floppy drives in Windows, I cant from linux...- zaimorkai
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- Forum: Linux (server)
