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[Jonathan Stuart Lovelace <kingjon AT cyberspace.org>]

> If you don't want the very latest source code, you can purchase CDs of 
> older Slackwares online quite cheaply.  I got mine from cheapbytes.com 
> (Slackware 7.1, 3-CD set, $1 plus $5 shipping).  The newer ones run to 
> many more CDs, or even DVDs.  If you want to compile only a few things,
> downloading at school over a fast connection is probably the way to go.

I want to compile various things in various versions, probably not the very
latest. Therefore, downloading over a fast connection _is_ the only way to go,
but I'm trying to get something rigged so I don't have to build a system as 
I'm
transitioning into college.

> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jonathan Stuart Lovelace wrote:

>>> Have you tried (with the jumper removed, that you added originally) not
>>> telling BIOS anything, which I think causes it to not find the drive at
>>> all, then looking at the drive with linux, including BL3?  Does BL not
>>> fdisk work where Redhat does, or did you just not try it yet?

>> I have not tried looking at the drive with anything except RedHat, which 
>> I'm
>> using from the disk. (LILO uses the BIOS, unfortunately, so I have to have 
>> my
>> /boot directory on hda.) My use of BL/Slackware is on hold because I don't 
>> have
>> a fast enough Internet connection to download packages and my current 
>> project
>> is building an entire system from source -- preferably twice, because I 
>> don't
>> like relying on RedHat, and I'm forced to use them (or Caldera, which 
>> gives you
>> no choice of which packages to install in the original installation) 
>> because
>> those two are the only distributions I have source on hand for. Once I get 
>> off
>> to college, where I'll have a much faster connection, I can get back to 
>> nicer
>> distributions.

I have now used BL (ramdisk BL2; I managed to destroy everything
installed-to-HD on this computer a while back) to access the big drive. Its
kernel must be recent enough.

>>> Putting the jumper on probably causes all OSes to identify the drive as
>>> only 32GB, because the hardware says that is what is is now.
>>
>> As I've been saying all along.
>>
>> (snip)
>>
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|"No man in the world has more courage |
| than the man who can stop after      |
| eating one peanut."                  |
|       -- Channing Pollock            |
|"Math is worse than peanuts."         |
|       -- Robert A. Heinlein          |
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