On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Added one also.
> Did a setup with fdisk for the partitions and
> diskdruid for the mount points.(and format !)
> All goes as a charm.
> Eric MC
I can't imagine what the problem is either, _altho_ .....
>
> Dennis Myers wrote:
> >
> > I have installed a second hard drive on the linux box.It is shown as
> > hdd. Went in and did a mke2fs and made one big partition, hdd1. Oh,
> > it's a Maxtor 15gig DiamondMax on Primary slave. ^^^^^
Primary (ide0) slave would be hdb, not hdd. hdd is always
secondary (ide1) slave. Often the ide's are mistakenly referred to
as ide 1 and ide 2, 'specially in Windoze docs. Causes some
confusion.
When I look at the
> > drive now it says no readable partitions present. How do I make the
> > partitions and save it so I can use it to back up my master hda. I'm not
> > even sure how to send files to it. I have looked at How to's and the
> > archives and don't find any help. Surely two hard drives are acceptable
> > to linux. A little help here, this package is heavy and I can't seem to
> > lift it. Ha! Thanks in advance, Dennis
As Eric mentioned above, I'd use DOS fdisk to make one big
partition out of the drive. Then while installing Mandrake, it will
take care of setting up swap and other ext2 partitions you choose
and make file systems on them as needed. I have 2 HDD's, hda (win)
and hdb (linux) and IIRC, that's what I did. I even used diskdrake
(in the install) to partition part of hdb as fat32 for use by either
OS. I did have to then run DOS fdisk again and set that partition
as 'active' so that Winblows could see it. I believe the only
thing here is Diskdrake correctly assigns the proper partion type
for fat32, but windoze uses it's own, different type. Linux can
use either, so then both OS's will be able to see fat32 partitions.
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~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
