Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 12:07:34AM +0000, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > > The hard disks are PATA disks in identical models in identical machines, > and I created them exactly the same sorry I did't read this closely enough. Were both the disks blank ? or had perhaps at least one been partitioned before (and where do you get brand new 10G PATA disks these days ;) So that's likely the answer to your puzzle: if your booting a linux system and partitioning from there it will tend to detect any pre-existing geometry and use that. 1. backup 2. wipe first block (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda(or whatever) count=1 bs=1b) 3. reboot 4. install and if its all really identical, you should get identical results. Regards, Paddy -- Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall