Re: Harddrive recognition

Harald Schwefel (Harald.Schwefel@yale.edu)
Sat, 06 Feb 1999 19:21:25 -0500

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>
> > I plan to install Redhat Linux 5.2 on my Pentium II computer. The problem
> > is my IDE hard drive is 11.5G and Linux doesn't recognize my 10G extended
> > partition, while there is no room for Linux in the 1.5G primary partition.
> > So I bought a 1.6G SCSI hard drive. But the Linux install program doesn't
> > even notice the existance of the SCSI hard drive. Do you know whether I
> > can install Linux on SCSI drive or not?
>
My Harddrive is a 10 Gig IDE, it works fine but I choose to have many
smaler partitions, maybe with splitting the HDD in some smaler
partitions you have more luck

harald

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