300gb HDD?

brucett · Post by **brucett** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 7:59 pm

I have done a pro install onto the standard xbox hard drive, but as planned i now want to update to a larger hard drive. but i want to know a few questions.

1) If i ftp'd my whole linux setup over to my windows pc now, and then ftp'd back when the 300gb is installed, will it still work or will i have to program pro again?

2) If i removed the dvd drive and put the 300gb hd on that ide cable, will it be simple to set up?

thanks in advance.

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:48 pm

1. Yes, this will work fine, if you intend on using the drive just for linux you should really convert to a native partition. If you are going to use fatx on your drive you should consider using a seperate F and G drive as this seems to work best.

2. Yes this is quite easy to set up put the drive in set as slave and run fdisk on it using

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fdisk /dev/hdb

then create a single partition and write the table to the disk.
Create a reiserfs filesystem using

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yes | mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1

The create a mount point and mount the new partion

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mkdir /mnt/newdrive
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/newdrive

lastly add a new line in fstab to make the drive mount on boot.

brucett · Post by **brucett** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:01 pm

went for option 1 in the end and installed a 200gb, the problem is i cant link to my f drive in the samba smb.conf. Can somebody give me some code to like share music from f/music/ . At the moment i am using the path below but it doesnt seem to work.

mnt/fatx/f/music/

brucett · Post by **brucett** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:09 pm

after a bit of research i realise i need to do some playing about with the settings.

Can someone please give me a quick explanation on how to get samba up and running on the f-drive, sharing files.

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:00 am

The samba config is pretty easy start with something simple

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[music]
path = /mnt/fatx/f/music

Then reload samba

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/etc/init.d/samba reload

You don't have to reload samba but it speeds things up.

brucett · Post by **brucett** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:52 pm

I used the above code and everything worked ok! cheers.

Just waiting to get my next 200gb hard drive to replace the dvd then i will try out the little tut you wrote first.

thanks