Brain damaged.
Jan. 15th, 2003 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjaiWindows.
Someone with more windows clue than I help me out here.
I installed Windows 2000 on my main workstation. It dual boots W2K and FreeBSD on the main SCSI drive, from which it boots. Since I'm running out of space on the SCSI drive, I thought I'd add an IDE drive. Which I did.
FreeBSD, of course, says "Oh, new drive", and ignores it until I add it to /etc/fstab. This is Right and Good.
W2K says "Oh. IDE drive. I'll load my kernel from SCSI, and then try to mount the (blank, unformatted) IDE drive as C:. "
It gets a little way into this process, informs me that I'll need to frob my Paging File settings, and then hits a weird loop where it tries to mount drives (including network drives), fails utterly to load an operating system from C: (because it's, well, BLANK!), and then starts again, just trying to load drives.
This is PATHALOGICALLY FUCKED UP. When I installed W2K, I DID SO TO THE SCSI DRIVE. FOR A GOOD REASON.
NO two bit piece of shit operating system is going to tell me where I want my OS to be.
So. Pop quiz. How the fuck do I add the IDE drive, and get it mounted under W2K as, say, E: or F: ?
sol.
.
Someone with more windows clue than I help me out here.
I installed Windows 2000 on my main workstation. It dual boots W2K and FreeBSD on the main SCSI drive, from which it boots. Since I'm running out of space on the SCSI drive, I thought I'd add an IDE drive. Which I did.
FreeBSD, of course, says "Oh, new drive", and ignores it until I add it to /etc/fstab. This is Right and Good.
W2K says "Oh. IDE drive. I'll load my kernel from SCSI, and then try to mount the (blank, unformatted) IDE drive as C:. "
It gets a little way into this process, informs me that I'll need to frob my Paging File settings, and then hits a weird loop where it tries to mount drives (including network drives), fails utterly to load an operating system from C: (because it's, well, BLANK!), and then starts again, just trying to load drives.
This is PATHALOGICALLY FUCKED UP. When I installed W2K, I DID SO TO THE SCSI DRIVE. FOR A GOOD REASON.
NO two bit piece of shit operating system is going to tell me where I want my OS to be.
So. Pop quiz. How the fuck do I add the IDE drive, and get it mounted under W2K as, say, E: or F: ?
sol.
.
Hah.
Date: 2003-01-15 02:41 am (UTC)