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  • Re: Hard Drive configuration

    From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Bogomips on Monday, May 12, 2025 21:33:47
    Bogomips wrote to All <=-

    In and attempt to have a dual boot laptop

    Ive been trying to get get the slackware install to recognize the D:
    drive on install.

    This doesn't really make any sense to me. Slackware doesn't know
    anything about any "D:". That's a Windows term.

    After trying every scenerio online. I still come up short.

    I was thinking of changing the physical location of the drive?

    Not sure what that means. Attach it to a different port/cable?

    Out of the box (2018) it was setup in RAID config.

    I would recommend not doing RAID, at least for now. I don't know a
    whole lot about RAID, but don't the 2 drives have to be the same size to
    use RAID? The data below shows them as different sizes.

    The BIOS shows the two drives as
    First HDD none
    Second HDD none
    Third HDD IntelSSDlkji (180.G)
    fourth HDD sd2000louol (2000.3G)

    Strange, seems they would show up as the First and Second. Are these
    SATA? PATA/IDE? M2/NVME? What are they?

    Was wondering if I could move the D: drive to the first or seconds
    spot?

    Not sure what that even means.

    And any other actions I would need to take?

    Get them connected to (maybe/probably) the SATA0 and SATA1 connectors
    (I'm assuming SATA drives here). If you can boot up to the Slackware installation media (USB stick?), then run fdisk/cfdisk/cgdisk to wipe
    the partion table out on both drives. Then create new partitions as
    desired. Then reboot into the installation media and start the install.

    Get the "D:" out of your head when installing Linux/Slackware. Also, in
    my dim memory of when I used to dual boot, I believe it's usually
    (always?) best to install Windoze before whatever Linux distro you want
    to install.

    Feel free to ask some more questions with some actual useful info on
    your setup/config if you need to. Good luck.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Gamgee on Monday, May 12, 2025 21:00:41
    Re: Re: Hard Drive configuration
    By: Gamgee to Bogomips on Mon May 12 2025 09:33 pm

    Ive been trying to get get the slackware install to recognize the D:
    drive on install.

    This doesn't really make any sense to me. Slackware doesn't know anything about any "D:". That's a Windows term.

    I wondered if his "D:" drive is a partition on a secondary hard drive. He may be referring to a specific hard drive he has, wanting to install Linux on it.

    Was wondering if I could move the D: drive to the first or seconds spot?

    Not sure what that even means.

    If he's referring to a specific hard drive he has, I imagined this might mean plugging it into a different SATA port or something.

    Nightfox

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  • From Bogomips@VERT to Gamgee on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 07:53:30
    Re: Re: Hard Drive configuration
    By: Gamgee to Bogomips on Mon May 12 2025 09:33 pm

    I was thinking of changing the physical location of the drive?

    Not sure what that means. Attach it to a different port/cable?
    Yes, I was thinking of moving the ribbon, If I could.


    I would recommend not doing RAID, at least for now. I don't know a
    whole lot about RAID, but don't the 2 drives have to be the same size to
    use RAID? The data below shows them as different sizes.

    I changed out of RAID, because everywhere I read said to change to ACHI for linux install.



    Strange, seems they would show up as the First and Second. Are these
    SATA? PATA/IDE? M2/NVME? What are they?
    SATA as far as I can tell.

    Was wondering if I could move the D: drive to the first or seconds spot?

    Not sure what that even means.

    Get the "D:" out of your head when installing Linux/Slackware. Also, in
    my dim memory of when I used to dual boot, I believe it's usually
    (always?) best to install Windoze before whatever Linux distro you want
    to install.
    I was using the D: as reference to it being visible in windows.

    Thank You for your input, i appreciate it

    Feel free to ask some more questions with some actual useful info on
    your setup/config if you need to. Good luck.

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  • From Bogomips@VERT to Gamgee on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 08:26:36
    Re: Re: Hard Drive configuration
    By: Gamgee to Bogomips on Mon May 12 2025 09:33 pm

    (I'm assuming SATA drives here). If you can boot up to the Slackware installation media (USB stick?), then run fdisk/cfdisk/cgdisk to wipe
    the partion table out on both drives. Then create new partitions as desired. Then reboot into the installation media and start the install.

    That is my whole dilema. I can't see the second drive during install with cfdisk, in order to partition it. Only sda, no sdb.

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