Topic: Mounting partitions

[Kees Pimpelmees]

Hi there,

I'm using e-smith 4.1.1 for about three weeks now and I'm learning more and more each time, but I'm afraid this time I'm in over my head...

I had e-smith running on a 550 Mhz computer and there I mounted a 30 Gb harddisk that was partioned in a couple of partitions. I used fstab to mount these partitions to use them as user, ibay, music-directory and that worked very well (thanx to Kees Blokland).

But now I want to exchange the 550 Mhz computer for a 166 Mhz, because I need the big one as an terminal server, but when I tried to mount the partitions the same way I did before, e-smith didn't regonize them.

Can anyone help me with this problem?

Repartionining (?) is not an option, because I've got for about 12 Gb of data on it that I need...

Kees Pimpelmees

[Alejandro]

Kees:
The motherboard's bios of a 166 mhz PC (I assume it's an intel Pentium based pc) can't recognize a disk bigger than 8 gb... so you are limited to that size of maximun storage space.
As far as I know, there is no way to change it... but maybe someone has a different opinion that can help you and me too...
 cause I'm running e-smith 411 on a pentium 166/ 64mb ram and 8gb hdd, is good enough for a standard server, but I would like to do some more disk consuming services, and I think  will run out of disk
Alejandro

[Rob Hillis]

Kees Pimpelmees wrote:

> I had e-smith running on a 550 Mhz computer and there I
> mounted a 30 Gb harddisk that was partioned in a couple of
> partitions. I used fstab to mount these partitions to use
> them as user, ibay, music-directory and that worked very well
> (thanx to Kees Blokland).
> But now I want to exchange the 550 Mhz computer for a 166
> Mhz, because I need the big one as an terminal server, but
> when I tried to mount the partitions the same way I did
> before, e-smith didn't regonize them.
> Can anyone help me with this problem?

This would be an issue with your motherboard in the 166mhz system - most of them aren't capable of supporting hard drives over about 8gig.  Unfortuately, you've got yourself a no-win situation - you're either going to have to repartition onto smaller drives, or upgrade the 166mhz machine.

E-Smith will run fine on the slower machine, you just can't use the larger hard drives on it, which nowadays causes *real* problems.  (Where do you find a new hard drive under 8gig?)

[steve]

Have you checked to see if a MB BIOS upgrade from the manufacturer would help?

Steve