Re: Hard drive problem

[Daniel <dascamel@gmail.com>]

On 5/6/05, Paul Cash <cash@globaleyes.net> wrote:
>  
> I'm not very knowelegable yet about linux, but i tried to instal fedora2
> with no success on an old compaq.  the installation stopped at a different
> place every time.  I also tried installing knoppix.  It runs fine from the
> cd,  even the printer and internet.  But the konsole shows read write error
> for all entries as the installation progresses. Once the installation
> worked, but there were some parts that didn't function.  I thought there
> might be something on the compaq hard drive that would be intended as a
> requirement for reinstalling the original OS.  So I tried a 2G old hard
> drive. I didn't have enough space for knoppix, but I tried a small
> installation of fedora2. Just x and graphical internet selected. It went
> through without any problem, but on rebooting, the computer said no OS
> found. I ran knoppix and there is about 1.84G of data on the disk. 
> Part 1-ext3, active,10.73mb used,  part 2-ext3, not active, 1.36G,  part
> 3-linux swap, 0mb. 
>   
> Any ideas, what might work? 

What kind've of hard drive is the first HD; IDE, SATA......... 
What is the size of your first hard drive?
What did your partitions look like on your first hard drive?

Can you mount the either hard drive under Knoppix? And can you browse
thru the files after mounting?  Can you mount it read/write and add a
file with no problems?

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