You can satisfy yourself more easily, I think. If you select /dev/hda, you will then see what, if any, partitions exist on that disk. The installer will not let you casually wipe out existing data. If you see vfat or fat partitions that look suspiciously like your Windows drive, and you should know it's approximate file size, then you'll know that's the wrong choice. Conversely, if you select /dev/hde and then see it's completely devoid of data, your OK to go with that disk. Is it the case that both disks have data and you can't tell between them from the partitioning tool's data display? Then, why not look at the bytesize of each? Compare those numbers to data you get in My Computer. Glenn Ervin writes: > From: "Glenn Ervin" <glennervin at cableone.net> > > hello everyone, > I still have not partitioned yet as I am not clear as to which hard drive is > being selected. Both fDisk & Druid call my second hard drive /dev/hde, and > I suspect that this is due to the fact that it is wired up via an IDE card, > as it is a removable drive. > I even had some sighted assistance, and my readers were not sure what was > about to happen based on the choices made. I cannot risk wiping out my > /dev/hda1 drive. > > I think I am going to open my computer and unhook the /dev/hda, and hook > that cable to the drive being called /dev/hde. This way, I will only get 1 > drive showing, and I will not hurt anything if something goes wrong. > > But regarding the partition sizes: > Thanks for all the input so far, but Janina mentioned something that I did > not know would make a difference, and so I will mention it now, and again, > feel free to suggest partition sizes for an 8 GB drive. Janina offered some > partition sizes thinking that I would not want to do FTP, and actually, I do > want to put an FTP site, and I am hoping to point the Linux server to the > FAT32 drive /dev/hda1 for file storage. But I am choosing "custom" in the > install, because I want to use Linux for all the things I use windows to > do. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 7:25 PM > Subject: Re: partitioning > > > Adam Myrow writes: > > > > 4GB should be more than enough for the root partition. > > > True, but 1.5mB, the way he originally spec'd it, is way too little for > /usr. He doesn't need that much in / > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
