Hey,

I wiped hdc on master which is 20 gb on a AMD k2-350 and installed Kubuntu, and I played with enough to really like it. Really like it.

I wiped hdc on (which is master) and copied over /home from hdb (which is slave) which is a 40 GB hdd. I called it /home2.

Mandrake 9. 10.0 and 10.1 had seen the 40 gb hard disk drive as a 31.1 GB. FreeBSD of course would see it as a 40 GB drive (not using FreeBSD these days, I do like it though). I was impressed that Kubuntu on hdc saw hdb as 40 gb. Both hdrives are Maxtors.

So I decided to abandon Mandrake. /home and /usr/local saved.

I was going to install kubuntu on the slave hdb 40 gb hard drive. I was going to wipe entire drive off.

I did not like the setting in multiseat. /usr too big for me, I like a bigger tmp, and I like a bigger swap. So I did it by hand root / 512 mb, /usr 2.1 GB, /var 1.0 Gb /swap 1.0 Gb, tmp 1.0 GB and rest to home on a total reformat on hdb.

Six different ways I have gone at it, and each time the partitioning hangs on not identifying the swap file. I have tried stock multiseat, stock single user, and various partition editing by hand. I tried entering sizes as percentages.

It says that swap cannot acess /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc

Yes, swap is as a swap file, usually hdb7. / is primary. all the rest are logical.

Any ideas. Is the 40 gb too big to identify for my old Soyo motherboard bios?

Is it my having hdb as slave and hdc as master?

Is my swap too big?

I would prefer not having the 20 gb be the workhorse, it is getting long in the tooth. and a little noisy.

TIA
Mark, L'Arche Winnipeg

peace, Mark

I have used similar setups (old machines with big drives).
Perhaps the partitioning scheme below might suit you?

primary 1: /boot
primary 2: swap
primary 3: /
logical 1: /usr
logical 2: /tmp
logical 3: /var