I just installed ubuntu, this is my first time with it so excuse my ignorance regarding it. My issue is that ubuntu does not show my secondary slave seagate hdd .. it only shows and installs on my western digital master primary one. I need to have access to my slave drive because it has data on it which i wanna use.
My secondary slave shows up in my windows and bios just fine. So what gives?
I'm trying to add my xp drive to the boot menu but I'm having some trouble with it. I've been going over dozens of topics on many forums and I still can't get it to work (I'm new to linux/ubuntu btw).
Ok, so, I have Ubuntu 10.04 on the main drive (primary master) and xp on a second drive (secondary slave) and from what I've read sec. slave is hd3. I added the lines I found in another thread (here I think) but when I tried to boot xp it said the drive didn't exist.
Here's my menu.lst file code...
I have an EeePC 901, with a 4gb SSD and a 16gb SSD installed. Trying to get Natty installed and hit a few problems not least of which, that it won't fit on the 4gb drive! However in my BIOS setup under HDD config it says:
Secondary Master=4gb
Secondary Slave=16gb
I have no other devices attached. Why aren't they Primary? And I can't seem to switch them round.
I have a secondary slave dns server setup, it has transferred all the records from the primary master.But when I run a few checks from outside using tools on the net it says:Tried to fetch SOA record for domain, but DNS server ns2.domain.com returned error code Refused.I disabled iptables, and tried again, same result. So I think it is something in the named.conf file? I appreciate any extra set of eyes on it. Just feel like I'm so close!
key "rndckey" {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret "mysecretkey";
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>> What ist the correct way to do it?
Scenario 1. Copy all contents of /home to the new drive and then switch the /home mount point
Scenario 2. Switch the mount point of /home from sda7 to sdb1 and cp the contents afterwards
>> How do I unmount /home from sda7 and mount it back to the sdb1 (ext3) when lucid doesn't use fstab (does it?) and I don't know where the drives manager stores it's information.
(Just had the idea that I need to use a live cd for not to lock the system drives (sdaN) )
For sure there is a man page or a how to somewhere i didn't just find >> A link to such information might be sufficient
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