On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 20:07 -0500, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH FL wrote: First, please avoid posting in HTML - particularly in such a TINY font. Makes getting a response much less likely. > OK, here we go, this may or not not have been posted before > but here I am still baffled as to what I need to do. > > Problem one: installed a 15 gig HD and fedora (or the bios) is calling > it an 8 gig'r. guess I need to set > the bios on the right peramaters.... Either that or drive jumpers. Have you updated to the latest BIOS? > 225Mhz P1 with MMX tech. and 256M Dimms. > > Problem Two: > I want to transfer files from the old hard drive (now /dev/hdb) to the > FC3 drive which is the 15 gig being called an > 8 gig. Now the problem is this, BOTH Drives have the "LABEL= /boot" on > them and this prevents me from being > able to manipulate teh RH8 hard drive and pull some of the needed > files over to the new install. Not that it's > a whole lot of files, just some key things and a pgp key that I need > for the system to operate. > When booting up, the system (FC3) locks out the /hdb drive and I can > not move anything from it to the > new one. Should be able to explicitly mount the partitions /dev/hdbX regardless of labels that may confuse the automated tools: # mkdir /old # mount /dev/hdb1 /old > first should I fix the drive pramamters (of course wipe the drive and > start fresh) that > way there will be no faults to show up on me?? and how do I make the > LABEL=/BOOT > go away enough to just let it be a plain file system. I have used the > e2label command > but I still can not see the harddrive in FC3. That should be the correct command, if properly applied. Could also use "tune2fs -L /boot1 /dev/hdb1". Is there only one partition on each disk? If so would have expected the labels to be "/" rather than "/boot". What does "fdisk -l" show? Phil
