How do I install a second harddrive - Solved

2003-09-02 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Just wanna say thanks to all that helped me get my 2nd harddrive up and running this weekend. kudos to a great list. I had the misconsception that I could split a directory across drives/partitions but gave up on that idea and decided instead to put /usr/share on a partition by itself. I did this

Re: How do I install a second harddrive

2003-08-29 Thread Neal Lippman
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:38, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi all, > I know that sounds stoopid, but I'm having trouble finding info > that tells me what I need to do to get a second harddrive on my system > recognized by linux. > When i boot the system dmesg clearly shows hdb as found. > however I do

Re: How do I install a second harddrive

2003-08-29 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Wathen, Metherion wrote: [...] So my question is 1) what do I use to 'see' the 2nd harddrive You need to a) partition it (fdisk or cfdisk) b) format it (mkXYZfs, where XYZ is the filesystem-type of your choice) c) mount it (mount and/or fstab) 2) how do I format it for use w/o messing up my 1st dr

Re: How do I install a second harddrive

2003-08-29 Thread Chris Wilcox
eed to be set on the new drive, and you may wish to do the above as root. I think this is what I did? Hope it helps! Regards, nry From: "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: How do I install a second ha

Re: How do I install a second harddrive

2003-08-29 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Friday 29 Aug 2003 7:38 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi all, > I know that sounds stoopid, but I'm having trouble finding info > that tells me what I need to do to get a second harddrive on my system > recognized by linux. > When i boot the system dmesg clearly shows hdb as found. > however I

How do I install a second harddrive

2003-08-29 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi all, I know that sounds stoopid, but I'm having trouble finding info that tells me what I need to do to get a second harddrive on my system recognized by linux. When i boot the system dmesg clearly shows hdb as found. however I don't know what to do to see the contents (if any) of hdb in a progr