[NBLUG/talk] ICH7R

[Christopher Wagner]

You can easily install Ubuntu on an 8 gig drive..  I'd recommend havving
your home partition on another hard drive, though, depending on what
you're planning to do with the box.

A fully installed OS can be around 2 GB with a general smattering of
normal applications, libraries and such for your average desktop
system.  Having your user files (/home) on a larger partition can be
very useful (and very potentially necessary) if you plan to do lots of
video or audio stuff.

A suggestion to help eliminate clutter inside your case is to switch as
much as possible to SATA as the data cables are MUCH more manageable
inside your case.

Of course, working with what you have is possible.  Ubuntu should easily
install to the secondary master position, and even install grub
appropriately if told to do so. (/dev/hdc is the secondary master
device)  Though, as I'm not familiar with the P5WD2, I don't know
whether it will support booting to devices on the IDE controller other
than "CDROM" or Primary Master.  My P4S800 supports booting to any
device on the IDE chain.  Either way you'll find out on the "Boot" menu
of your BIOS.

Hope that helps.  If you need more help, I might be able to help a
little over the phone when you're installing.

- Chris

Stephen Cilley wrote:

>Ok, new issue:
>Last week I struggled a bit to get a liveCD to boot on
>my desktop.  I did a bunch of different stuff and then
>I realized that the issue was in the controller on my
>board and I switched the DVD drive's ribbon cable over
>to the other Re: [NBLUG/talk] Direct Render Support
>PATA controller on the board and everything was fine.
>But this isn't really a solution to the problem,
>especially because now I want to install it instead of
>just running the boot CD.
>The motherboard is a P5WD2 from Asus and the
>controller I'm having an issue with is called ICH7R
>and it's from Intel.  I put a different hard disk (an
>little 8 gig I had around... do you guys think that's
>too little for Ubuntu?) in there and hooked it up to
>the problematic controller and booted the DVD only to
>find out at the fdisk stage of the install that the
>same issue applies to hard disks.
>I could swap the hard disk onto the secondary on the
>working controller, but that would be a bit of a
>shuffle I don't really want to make (there are
>physical limitations to consider about the size of the
>inside of the case and the length and felexability of
>ribbon cable.)  So if I have both slots on the ITE
>(working) controller taken and I want to put the hard
>drive as the secondary master of the ICH7R and I want
>to be able to install that way, what can I do?  Has
>anyone heard about this particular controller not
>working?
>Also, I'd like to refrain from adding another
>controller to the box, it's a jumbled mess as it is.
>Thank you,
>Stephen
>
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