Re: [SLUG] trying to install MEPIS

From: Red Wolfman (redrhood@hotpop.com)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 20:11:56 EST


I have two ide hard drives, no scsi,one zip100 ide, a dvd(ide),a
cdrw(ide), and a floppy.

On Feb 13, 2004, at 7:05 PM, Bill Canaday wrote:

> On Friday 13 February 2004 05:36 pm, you wrote:
>
>> USE disk pull down choice sda or hdb ??????
>> At this point I'm lost help please
>>
> You mention having a 60 g HD ... but only one. Do you have a scsi
> disk? (sda)
> or a second ide hard drive? (hdb)
>
> I'm not that familiar with Mepis (installed it once, wasn't impressed,
> installed over it.) so I'm not certain what else might be on the
> screen you
> are looking at, but the choice being offered here refers to a second
> physical
> drive (as opposed to a logical drive that is actually a partition of a
> physical one).
>
> If you only have a single physical hard drive, the question doesn't
> apply to
> you.
>
> Bill
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