Relating HDA1 / 2 to HDA55 / 56 for native partition
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:21 pm
Sorry if this is going to be a brainless noob question but I am a linux virgin. Ive been searching and not found anything to answer my question.
I basically want to install my gentoox to G: natively
Im running a 1.3 xbox with Xecutor 2.3 + X2 4980.67 bios 160 gig HD split with F & G and booting gentoox from evox dash. Kernel is 2.4.240 i think from memory probably wrong
I have read the various posts from Terra and Nobspangel and im starting to pick up what i have to do but i am at a total loss as to how to relate the /dev/hda55 / 56 drives to the native linux partitions HDA1 / 2
Is HDA 1 / 2 like a virtual partition within the xboxes physically partitioned drives hDA55 / 56
I am trying to work out how I can partition the g: drive so it will have a swap and rootfs. All the commands ive tried so far has resulted in me banging my head eg...
FDISK /dev/hda56 - created a partition called /dev/hda56p1 ... then if it try to format that it says it doesnt exist.
Also tried the mkpartition script that shallax created... The xbox does somathing but I cant tell if it had created the relevant partitions..Once that is done how do i access them ? do I use the mount command
Once i have them created i hope i can copy all the rootfs files accross and then edit the fstab file and possibly linux.cfg ???
Thanks for any pointers Im going round in circles
I basically want to install my gentoox to G: natively
Im running a 1.3 xbox with Xecutor 2.3 + X2 4980.67 bios 160 gig HD split with F & G and booting gentoox from evox dash. Kernel is 2.4.240 i think from memory probably wrong
I have read the various posts from Terra and Nobspangel and im starting to pick up what i have to do but i am at a total loss as to how to relate the /dev/hda55 / 56 drives to the native linux partitions HDA1 / 2
Is HDA 1 / 2 like a virtual partition within the xboxes physically partitioned drives hDA55 / 56
I am trying to work out how I can partition the g: drive so it will have a swap and rootfs. All the commands ive tried so far has resulted in me banging my head eg...
FDISK /dev/hda56 - created a partition called /dev/hda56p1 ... then if it try to format that it says it doesnt exist.
Also tried the mkpartition script that shallax created... The xbox does somathing but I cant tell if it had created the relevant partitions..Once that is done how do i access them ? do I use the mount command
Once i have them created i hope i can copy all the rootfs files accross and then edit the fstab file and possibly linux.cfg ???
Thanks for any pointers Im going round in circles