HELP!!! maybe.....

[Phil Schaffner]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 20:07 -0500, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH FL
wrote:

First, please avoid posting in HTML - particularly in such a TINY font.
Makes getting a response much less likely.


> OK, here we go, this may or not not have been posted before
> but here I am still baffled as to what I need to do.
>  
> Problem one: installed a 15 gig HD and fedora (or the bios) is calling
> it an 8 gig'r. guess I need to set
> the bios on the right peramaters....

Either that or drive jumpers.  Have you updated to the latest BIOS?

> 225Mhz P1 with MMX tech. and 256M Dimms.
>  
> Problem Two:
> I want to transfer files from the old hard drive (now /dev/hdb) to the
> FC3 drive which is the 15 gig being called an
> 8 gig. Now the problem is this, BOTH Drives have the "LABEL= /boot" on
> them and this prevents me from being
> able to manipulate teh RH8 hard drive and pull some of the needed
> files over to the new install. Not that it's
> a whole lot of files, just some key things and a pgp key that I need
> for the system to operate.
> When booting up, the system (FC3) locks out the /hdb drive and I can
> not move anything from it to the
> new one.

Should be able to explicitly mount the partitions /dev/hdbX regardless
of labels that may confuse the automated tools:

# mkdir /old
# mount /dev/hdb1 /old
 
> first should I fix the drive pramamters (of course wipe the drive and
> start fresh) that
> way there will be no faults to show up on me?? and how do I make the
> LABEL=/BOOT
> go away enough to just let it be a plain file system. I have used the
> e2label command
> but I still can not see the harddrive in FC3.

That should be the correct command, if properly applied.  Could also use
"tune2fs -L /boot1 /dev/hdb1".  Is there only one partition on each
disk?  If so would have expected the labels to be "/" rather than
"/boot".  What does "fdisk -l" show?

Phil