Initialize? Nope. Never thought of that! I guess my boot partition (/dev/hda1)was automatically initialized when I loaded linux. And yes the disk2 mount point exists. I will try that! thank you!
----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wendell Buckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Users Group <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; <recipient list not shown: ;> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 5:57 AM Subject: Re: Problems mounting second hardisk, partition > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Wendell Buckner wrote: > > > I've had this problem since I started fooling around with linux about > > four months ago and never fixed. Since then I've added gnu c/c++, > > fvwm and network card (thanks to the debian users group). Samba is > > hopefully on the way, but back to this nagging problem I have. I > > can't seem to mount hdb2... I don't know why, but the following is the > > information on my second hard drive: > > > > hdb1 primary linux swap 150.4 > > hdb2 boot primary linux 175.47 > > > > > > I tried to use the following command to mount it: > > > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 disk2 > > > > > > The Hdb2 partition is set as linux extended and I tried to change > > that...cfdisk won't let me do it!! Anybody know the answer...ANYBODY? > > :) > > Have you initalized the partition using mke2fs? And doese the > mountingpoint disk2 exist? > > Martin > > -- > For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
