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Special Edition Using Linux®, Sixth Edition
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Special Edition Using Linux®, Sixth Edition

by David Bandel, Robert Napier
December 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
22h 41m
English
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Hard Drive Installation

Four basic steps are required to add and replace hard drives:

1.
Physically connect the new drive.
2.
Partition the drive.
3.
Create a new filesystem on the new partitions.
4.
Mount the new filesystem.

Although installing new hard drives into a PC goes beyond the scope of this book, a few general rules might be worth reviewing. The two most common types of hard drives are IDE drives and SCSI drives. The key to installing an IDE drive is to make sure that jumpers are set correctly as either a master/only drive or slave device. Each IDE controller (many systems today have two IDE controllers directly embedded on the motherboard) can support two drives. One drive must be jumpered as the master device and the other as the slave ...

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