Did you ever get this problem solved? If not, having done it about ten times in the last three days, I can give you a step by step with the Debian installer, if you need it. Regards, Luke On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Ned Granic wrote: > Thanks folks for the help with hardware. > > Then, I came to a halt again! > Manually partitioning the disks: > After matching the partitions from hda (master) and hdb (slave), and > clicking on "finish and write changes to disk", the following error pops up: > > <box> > partition disks: > identical mount points for two file systems. > Two file systems are assigned the same mount point (/): > ide1 master, partition #1 (hda1) and ide slave, partition #1 (hdb1). > please correct this by changing mount points. > <end box> > So on both drives there is the root partition with the ext3 fs, they are > both set to be formatted, the bootable flag is set on both, the mount points > are / (root dir), and sizes are identical. > Finally, they are matched. > > How to proceed? > > Many thanks in advance! > Ned > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:07 PM > Subject: Re: raids > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > In fact, if you were to put 2 master drives on the same controller, > > your machine wouldn't boot. As for where to put the second drive, I'd > > recommend hdb on the first controller, rather then hdd, since you > > don't want to mix cd-rom and hard drives if you can avoid it. > > > > As for your question how to do it, you need to set the jumper on the > > back of the second drive to slave, connect the cable, make sure that > > secondary slave is set to auto-detect in bios, and you should be all > > set. You'll probably need sighted help with setting the jumper, if you > > don't know which pins on the drive are for slave. You shouldn't need > > to touch the primary hd. Hth. > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:41:53PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote: > >> <Hi, > >> In order to set up rade, You do not need to have two master drives. > >> I suggest you set up the second drive as a slave on hdb or hdd. > >> HTH, Willem > >> > >> > > > > - -- > > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > > skype: gregn1 > > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > > > - -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFFAIoj7s9z/XlyUyARAks3AJ9h3l0V1p6WBGjoMZel9LV5+hslxQCeNk1t > > wc6uLfqXlySVVN53Tj3c9eo= > > =d6Kb > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
