i had a windows 2003 server which i have recently converted to Fedora Core release 4
the install basically used the first hdd (as i told it to) and the remaining three hd's still had the original 'dynamic disc NTFS' format on them from Windows 2003 server.
I wanted to format all the other three hd's to Ext3 filesystem (for journalling) and to do so i had to first change the partition info from the SFS filesystem to LINUX
here's the output before i did anything
Quote:[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 14593 117113850 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 14589 117186111 42 SFS
Disk /dev/hdc: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 15017 120624021 42 SFS
Disk /dev/hdd: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 14589 117186111 42 SFS
so above, as you can see,. /dev/hda1 is already in linux format (actually it's a LVM logical volume manager format which Fedora Core defaults to) and i want to change the other three hd's from SFS (dynamic disks in windows 2003 server) to Ext3 linux.
first off, i need to re-partition the hard disc's one by one, so i started with /dev/hdb
login as root and do this
Code:
fdisk /dev/hdb
you will now be given some info like this
Quote:The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14593.There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help):
now type the letter 't' as follows:-
Code:
Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes):
and now tell it what filesystem you want (83=linux)
Code:
Hex code (type L to list codes): 83
Changed system type of partition 1 to 83 (Linux)
finally you need to write those changes so do that with a simple 'w'
Code:
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
to verify that the changes are made as root do
Code:
fdisk -l
as you see below, /dev/hdb is now type 83=linux
Quote:[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 14593 117113850 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 14589 117186111 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdc: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 15017 120624021 42 SFS
Disk /dev/hdd: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 14589 117186111 42 SFS
ok, now that's all done, you need to format the hdd to your chosen filesystem, i chose ext3 and this is how i did it
Code:
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1
it won't take long, and once done you'll see something like this scroll by,,
Quote:mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
14663680 inodes, 29296527 blocks
1464826 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
Run this command as root: rpm -ivh [url=http://www.win-vista.net/downloads/linux-n...r.10.5.i686.rpm]http://www.win-vista.net/downloads/linux-n...r.10.5.i686.rpm
Test that its properly installed by running;
modprobe ntfs
If there is no error message, its installed properly. If you get this error;
No such module NTFS,
Its not installed properly.
I'l keep the rpms comming as redhat updates their development kernels.
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For the past few days I have been trying, with no luck, to install ndiswrapper. I have followed the Wiki Located Here. Everything goes as planed, I assume, untill I have to input "make install." At that point I get:
Code:
root@Computer:/home/User/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.11# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/User/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.11/driver'
cc -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -DMODVERSIONS -include /lib/modules/2.4.31/build/include/linux/modversions.h -DUSB_DRIVER_OWNER -freg-struct-return -DDRIVER_VERSION=\"1.11\" -DLINUX -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I/lib/modules/2.4.31/build -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -c -o hal.o hal.c
In file included from hal.c:24:
ntoskernel.h:43:28: net/iw_handler.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [hal.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/User/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.11/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2
root@Computer:/home/User/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.11#
If you need more info on this topic post your question, but like I said i followed the wiki to a T and thats what I got.
I really do not know what to do here so if anyone is willing to take the time to help an
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Code:
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