Dude, Where Is My Hard Drive?

[Member alanwake82]

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Thanks for the details and Images.

[Member Arius]

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Thanks for all the input, everybody. (Marcelo was also extremely helpful via PM.)
When I have a moment I’m going to see what I can accomplish with Gparted.

I’m definitely using antiX 21 x64 FULL sysv edition ~~~ 1570 preinstalled packages.

and here’s my inxi output, in case that’s still useful to anyone:

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP-Pavilion product: FK790AAR-ABA m9400f v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ECS model: Nettle3 v: 2.2 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 5.17 
  date: 04/23/2008 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD Phenom 9750 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K10 rev: 3 
  cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 19289 
  Speed: 2400 MHz min/max: 1200/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2400 2: 2400 
  3: 2400 4: 2400 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:05.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.1 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  type: network bridge driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: ec00 
  bus-ID: 00:07.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe vendor: Lite-On 
  driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: ac00 bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Linksys WUSB600N v2 Dual-Band Wireless-N Network Adapter [Ralink 
  RT3572] 
  type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus-ID: 1-1:2 
  IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.52 GiB used: 4.9 GiB (0.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3500320AS size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKB-00H8A0 
  size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 26.82 GiB used: 4.69 GiB (17.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 
  mapped: root.fsm 
  ID-2: /boot size: 487.2 MiB used: 102.3 MiB (21.0%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-3: /home size: 421.99 GiB used: 117.2 MiB (0.0%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: 1.home.fsm 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/dm-2 mapped: swap 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 75.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 177 Uptime: 16m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 1.01 GiB (13.0%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1637 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

[Member seaken64]

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Hi @Arius, yes the inxi info helps. Your machine is quite capable of running antiX-21 well. Most of my old computers are lesser machines.

You can use Gparted to reclaim the old Windows drive space as storage space for your antiX operating system. Or, if you want to experiment with more than one OS at a time you can “Partition” the drive and install a second, or more, instance of antiX, (for example the Runit version, or the Core version, etc., or a “Frugal”).

Take your time and learn about Linux and antiX. When you are ready we can look into using Gparted.

Seaken64

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