server setup
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hello
I am having serious problems on how to set up server using mepis. I have used both simplymepis/mepissoho and both give the following results.
I have standard pc hardware all being recognised by both os's. However, when attempting to format 2 x 250gb hard drives attached to pci ide controller i get the following answer " these are virtual drives ".
Should I format these drives prior to installing mepis or after mepis install is complete, although I get the same response of " these are virtual drives" even after installing mepis. The drives also return as mnt/hd? ( ? giving different letters) mnt/flash.
I am trying to install mepis on a 40gb hard drive (master) attached to primary ide on motherboard. I have a dvd rom attached to secondary ide on motherboard as master. I then have 2 x 250 gb drives attached to pci ide card controlller. drive 1 attached as primary master and drive 2 as secondary master. both drives recognised but on mounting same " no file system ".
What I am trying to do is set up the 2 x 250gb drives so that files can be dropped onto the drives and then accessed by windows machines running specific software.
Can anyone assist or point me in the right direction (reading material or otherwise) on howto setup the server using simplymepis/mepissho. An idiots guide would be great.
I have been using promepis/simplymepis on my laptop for a while now with no problems. I thought I would setup an office server but did not realise the complexity of it all.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance
server setup
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I have been playing with an additional pci disk controller myself this week. It has been interesting. I have been cautious because I had hard drives with existing data that I don't want to lose. The controller I have been using a SiI 0680 card from Belkin, seems to be happiest when it is the primary boot controller with hda and hdc (primary and secondary master)(set to boot from pci controller in mb bios). The motherboard controller then assigns primary masters as hde and hdg. Other than that I haven't had any problems partitioning and formatting the new drives (120gb) that I installed.
If you haven't added an additional drive in linux before a tutorial like that below can help.
It sounds like the system is booting fine and sees the drives from what you are saying. If so then you just need to run cfdisk from a console or Qparted from KDE and partition the drives. One big partition on each? After that just format with file system of your choice.
I have setup an old pc that I have as a mp3 server with simplymepis and it works great. I don't need to share files with a windows pc very often (wife's winxp) but I have found that the samba functionality builtin to mepis to be easy to use (smb4k) and ready to go.
Chiming In
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Hi Maxine, I'm chiming in on this thread since you have provided some good info here (ignore my questions on the previous thread).
From your description, your main, master drive, upon which you have loaded Mepis (the 40GB), should be recognized as /dev/hda, and probably have hda1, hda2, hda3 as "swap", "/" and "/home" in some order. Also, your DVD, being master on the second controller should be /dev/hdc (mapped to /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvdrom). The final PCI controller should thus provide you with /dev/hde and /dev/hdf (master and slave). When you boot with the Live CD, and start QTParted, do /dev/hde and /dev/hdf show up in the left-hand window? If so, you should choose each one and in the right-hand window, right-click and choose to add a new partition table. Then, once that's done you should be able to add partition(s) to the drives. They will not "take" until you "write" the partition table back to the drive.
How is your 40GB drive partitioned? How are you wanting to partition and mount your 250GB drives? Please post the info and we'll see if we can give you recommendations on the /etc/fstab file which you may have to change manually
Jon