[Gllug] Discovery Day

[Nix]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, David Reed moaned:
> Jason Clifford wrote:
> 
>>/dev/hda1   /windows  vfat  defaults,umask=000   0 0
>
> Thanks for this hint, but I have seen this already. My problem is that
> this is an excellent example but it refers to what is probably a
> typical set up prior to the Ubuntu installation.  What I could not
> understand is whether the first section of the line should refer to my
> first partition /dev/sda1 or to /dev/sda6 which is the data partition
> I want to open up. In which case, is the second part of the line
> "/windows" relevant ?

The data partition, and yes. `man fstab' documents this stuff, but
basically the first field is the device the data is coming from, the
second is the place you want to put the filesystem when you mount it,
the third is the filesystem type, the fourth is filesystem-specific
options, and the fifth and sixth are numbers indicating what order
to check and back up the filesystems in. (The last number is only
used by one backup tool, which I hate and avoid, and is optional.)

> However, I think that the really difficult hurdle is that posed by
> trying install a distribution on the legacy IDE hard disks. No one on
> this list seems to have come up with a solution. I watched with eager
> anticipation when it was mentioned about ten days ago, but only Nix
> and Tet even proferred a solution and then it all fizzled out. It is
> impossible?

`The legacy IDE hard disks'? I'm not sure I can remember contributing to
that :/ The machine directly above my head at this moment[1] has a
distro partially sitting on an old non-ATAPI IDE hard disk. It wasn't
any different from installing one on ATAPI disks (I had to look closely
to realise that one machine had ATAPI and the other didn't.)


[1] well, there is a floor in the way. loki isn't some sort of Server of
    Damocles.

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