Re: Can't tell which hard drive to install Fedora 13 OS to.

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On 09/17/2010 01:12 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 05:54 PM, JD wrote:
>> On 09/15/2010 01:55 PM, allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>> PartitionMagic doesn't run on Windows Vista which is what I have.  Also,
>>> space isn't an issue on the Data drive since it is completely clear (all
>>> 150 GB of it), so one drive has Windows installed on it with all of my
>>> personal data, and the other drive has literally nothing on it (which is
>>> the drive I wish to install F13 on).  So when I go to install F13 to a
>>> hard drive, I have to choose one of the two drives, and their only
>>> distinguishing characteristics are their serial numbers and whether they
>>> are "sda" or "sdb" which I assume stands for "slave drive a" and "slave
>>> drive b", and I would think that Windows is installed on sda, but
>>> assumptions are dangerous in the computer world.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick response!
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
>> While booted off of the F13, open a gnome terminal
>> Applications ->  System Tools ->  Terminal
>>
>> In terminal:
>>
>> su -
>>
>> mkdir /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
>>
>> mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /sda1
>> mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /sdb1
>>
>> ls /sda1
>> ls /sdb1
>>
>> the output of each ls should tell you which one is the windows boot disk.
>>
>> Once you know, which disk is windows, you install on the other.
>> Now, to prepare the other, you need to delete the ntfs partition on it.
>>
>> Let's assume the data disk is /dev/sdb:
>>
>> umount /sdb1
>>
>> fdisk /dev/sdb
>> d
>> 1
>> w
>> q
>>
>> Now, you can install on the data disk (assuming it was sdb)
>>
>> During the install, do not forget to leave room for about 2 to 4GB
>> swap partition. It will come in very handy if you decide to hibernate
>> the linux system.
>>
>> As a final note:
>> If you bios has a boot disk selector menu (F12 ???)
>> then, at end of installation you will be asked where
>> to install grub. Install it on /dev/sdb  (NOT /dev/sdb1).
>>
>> If your BIOS does not support a boot disk selector, then
>> install grub on /dev/sda (the windows disk).
>>
>> Grub will add an entry in grub.conf to let you boot
>> windows, from the grub menu.u
> Do not mkdir /dev/<anything>
> /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are devices.
>
> Best practice is to make directories under /mnt or another directory
> tree, but /sda1 and /sdb1 are fine too

So, who advised the OP to do mkdir /dev/<anything>
that prompted you to issue this ad-vice? :)

I made a typo mistake.
I had meant to say

fdisk /dev/sdb
instead I,  wrote  fdisk /sdb1

Sorry about that Allen.

Let us know how you're coming along.
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