fwd: hello and perhaps some help

[Kerttu]

Hello, all this staff i know what you have sent, but i am having
troubles with wireless, i have ubuntu on my notebook fujitsu siemens
amilo pro 7010

Kerttu



Regina Woodard wrote:
>Hi there. I actually signed up for the
sounder list and the listmaster said
>I should probably address my
question here, so I'm going to go ahead and
>paste it here
-
>
>THe gist is this - I would like to install SOME form of
linux (at this
>point, it doesn't even matter which one) on a
second hard drive. THough my
>primary master drive is 80GB, I
really don't want to have two OS on that
>drive, hence the
second.
>
>
>  
>
>>As for the specs of
my computer, I would like this placed on a second
>>hard drive
NOT the master (so basically the slave) The slave is
a
>>Fujitsu limited with 1.96GB; I am using an internal NIC
which is Belkin
>>2003; NTFS; nVidia sound card with Hercules
drivers....again, I want
>>this to be on the second drive and
theoretically, when I boot from the
>>CD, shouldn't it do what
Windows does and ask which drive I want it on?
>>My computer is
set to boot from the CD, but at least with Suse, it
>>didn't
even pick up that I had two hard drives.
>>   

>>
>
> Okay, so sorry about this very long post,
but I truly am hoping to make
>  
>
>>this work.
Any suggestions are appreciated and even though I am a
BIT,
>>please take the time if possible to explain this as
though I'm a five
>>year old. All the searches I've done for
this problem either are too
>>confusing or don't address my
problem and there doesn't seem to be a
>>solution.
>> 
  
>>
>
>
>As it stands, I got another reply
that said I wouldn't have enough room on
>the 1.96GB drive, but
again, I only want to test Linux to see if I would
>like it or
not. THe screenshots I've seen makes me want to, but I don't
want
>to try it if it means going out and buying another hard
drive or worse,
>re-partitioning the 80GB and deleting everything
on that drive.
>
>Any
help?
>
>Gina
>
>  
>
Use the live CD
that is what it is there for.  Use several of them if 
you want. :-)
The choice is yours.
Three other ones are Kubuntu live :) from the
ubuntu family and kanotix, 
or knoppix.
If you have a second drive
and no Linux is picking it up I would suggest 
that you check the
disk settings.
Disks can be attached to your hardware in several ways
but judging by 
the size of the drives your most likely set up with
what is called and 
IDE cable.
In general there are three settings
available to you with a hard drive.
Master
Slave
Cable
Select.
The cable is called an IDE Ribbon Cable.
Where there is
one drive on the cable it should be master.
Where there are two
drives on the cable one should be master (that would 
be your Windows
Drive) and the other one should be slave.
This setting is achived by
moving jumpers on the drive.  The jumper is 
rather small so I
suggest that you get a piece of clear table surface 
and put the
drive over it, before you change the position of the jumper.
Or if
you have not bought a second drive ask nicely in the store before

buying the disk could they fit it as a slave for you and make the

existing drive master.
These are beside the socket on the drive
and unfortunatley without the 
drive models we can't research the
settings.
However all is not lost usually on the top of the drive the
letters M,C, 
and S are on the top of the drive over the jumper to be
moved.
I hope your still with me, cos the next step is the hard one
install 
Linux and yes it should spot the second drive.
:-)
Regards,
Paul O'Malley
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