Originally Posted by
starchee
hmm, is there a problem with installing it onto hda? i dont mind going at it again im just gonna have to figure out which cord represents which hd-thing. i do ls at the /# prompt and it lists a bunch of directories, making me think that it has installed fine onto hda.. probably shouldnt have done this till my tivo arrived so i could test it myself though. if anything to save asking probably-stupid questions here :)
There is never anything called a "Stupid Question" only because we were all at one stage "newbies" and had to ask questions to get where we are.
There isn't a problem installing onto HDA. If you want to learn a little bit more, experimentation is always a great way to get started, and I'll ask you to type "dmesg" without quotes of course. Somewhere in the middle, it should say (and it may look a little different because I dont have access to a TiVo boot CD at the moment):
Code:
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 8418816 sectors (4310 MB) w/81KiB Cache, CHS=524/255/63
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
This is actually just a snap shot of my linux firewall/server. You will notice that HDA is listed as a Hard Drive. (in my case, a 4 gig hdd). It also picked up something on HDC which is my CD Rom Drive, but didn't list it because it's not a Hard Drive.
From this info you can tell what position your HDD is. a, b, c or d.
If you don't get this info, please let me know, and I'll find another way to find it out.
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