Den 25. nov. 2008 kl. 00.59 skreiv Robert C Wittig:

> Seeing as how you mention that you are a newbie, I will make a guess
> that might be incorrect, about your problems with your second HD and
> flash stick...
>
> In Linux, partitions are not automatically mounted, same as they are
> in Windows. Except for the partitions that the OS itself creates, you
> will probably have to mount these extra partitions yourself (assuming
> the HD and Flash stick are already partitioned, and have file systems
> on them that are recognised by Linux.

The machine ran Windows 98 before, and the extra HD has a few Windows  
files on it. But I allowed the Linux installer to erase the C: disk  
and install itself on it. It's a pretty old machine, too, and I  
picked up that old book with that old Red Hat version just to  
experiment on it a little. I don't think the extra HD is partitioned  
at all, and neither is the Flash stick. I've been using it to  
transfer files between my Mac and my new Windows machine, which  
functions seamlessly, but I guess it's not surprising that Red Hat  
8.0 can't handle it.

> If you have not already done so, read the man pages for 'mount',
> 'mkfs', and 'fstab', and do a little Googling on them as well.

Thanks for your advice. I'm at an early stage of my Linux learning  
curve yet and shouldn't bother you further until I've read me up a  
bit more. I am hoping that my previous knowledge of Unix will help me  
out, but I never was on the sysadm side of that, so I guess I'm up  
for a bit of fumbling yet.

LEF



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