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Does anyone even know where I can start with this problem? I have a new machine that has two hard drives in it. One 250Gb and one 60Gb. As of right now I have ms xp installed in a ntfs partition of 200Gb on the big hard drive. The remaining ~50Gb is also ntfs, and I call it Winlnx. The last 60Gb on the second drive is blank.
What I've been trying to do is install ubuntu from a live usb onto that drive, but whenever I boot from my usb drive into the ubuntu trial/installer I cant see any drives other than the 8Gb flash. When in windows I can see the windows partition, the winlnx and the blank drive. When I boot to gparted I can see and edit every byte of memory on the machine. But the second I go back to the ubuntu usb, everything disappears again...
Running fdisk -l in ubuntu's terminal reveals nothing but partitions of the 8Gb flash. Any ideas?
This is really bugging me, as my cnc's been down for a few weeks, and I'm dying to get some parts banged out. Ubuntu is the only way to run linuxcnc however...
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I don't think that's the problem. Every time I've installed Ubuntu from the ISO images on the website it has been perfectly compatable with ntfs. And even if it couldn't read the drive with ntfs on it, it would still be able to see the device itself. Plus the 60Gb drive was unpartitioned so that should be seen even if Ubuntu couldn't read ntfs.
I downloaded and burned 12.04 to my USB and was able to see the drives just fine which leads me to believe that the particular version of 10.04 that linuxcnc comes precompiled with has comparability issues with my hardware. In the worst case scenario I can use a fresh version of 10.04 and individually install every driver and program I need for the Linux partition.
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Steve, you're probably correct. I have a fresh 10.04 installed and it was able to see the drives just fine. Although it was a lot more work, it now works just fine. Probably something to do with the watered down linuxcnc distro lacking everything the clean one does.
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