Partitioning, mounting questions (Solved)
Posted: Tue 26 Jul 2005, 05:47
Hi all - I have puppy 1.04 running finally after 15hours of troubleshooting, and going through a lot of freakin' problems, none of them too bad, except that deducing that your cmos battery is dying sometimes takes real detective work, and using the bios is a bit whaky when you don't always know quite what you're doing Actually puppy has always been fine, its the hardware setup that took the time
Anyway - I am ready to do a hard-drive install as I am now trying to use Puppy as much as possible and phase out my other operating systems.
Lots of good info on the wiki and forums for this and I know it should really be a no brainer - my problem is I can see
hdc1 and hdc5, and hdc6 on the load up and mount hdc1 and hdc6 using the mounter utility and see them using rox (hdc5 isn't fomatted yet but was planning on making it ext2 - dunno enough about linux swap yet or if I need one)
but when I use rxvt which has the cfdisk utility I'd like to start getting used to its only picking up my hda1 drive and if I type /mnt/cdrive which is where rox says hdc1 is I just keep getting this permission denied message
I tooled around with rox's permissions popup menu to no avail..
so help with the permissions thing, please or tell me what I'm doing/thinking wrong
and also any partitioning suggestions? should I have a swap file? advantages of having it?
Thanks for any assistance, folks
Mark
AMD athlon something (old), speed 1196 from xproc
integrated sis components
288mB ram - xproc shows 272836kB (272mBish for some reason)
maxtor 7345at 330mB drive (where pup001 resides for now)
one samsung sv2002h 20gB drive (3 partitions so far, 1 unformatted, 2fat32)
1 new puppy
grub soon......
Anyway - I am ready to do a hard-drive install as I am now trying to use Puppy as much as possible and phase out my other operating systems.
Lots of good info on the wiki and forums for this and I know it should really be a no brainer - my problem is I can see
hdc1 and hdc5, and hdc6 on the load up and mount hdc1 and hdc6 using the mounter utility and see them using rox (hdc5 isn't fomatted yet but was planning on making it ext2 - dunno enough about linux swap yet or if I need one)
but when I use rxvt which has the cfdisk utility I'd like to start getting used to its only picking up my hda1 drive and if I type /mnt/cdrive which is where rox says hdc1 is I just keep getting this permission denied message
I tooled around with rox's permissions popup menu to no avail..
so help with the permissions thing, please or tell me what I'm doing/thinking wrong
and also any partitioning suggestions? should I have a swap file? advantages of having it?
Thanks for any assistance, folks
Mark
AMD athlon something (old), speed 1196 from xproc
integrated sis components
288mB ram - xproc shows 272836kB (272mBish for some reason)
maxtor 7345at 330mB drive (where pup001 resides for now)
one samsung sv2002h 20gB drive (3 partitions so far, 1 unformatted, 2fat32)
1 new puppy
grub soon......