Jim Baxter wrote: > > Hi > > I need to ad a drive to an existing system with minimum disturbance to the > existing system. > So far I can't seem to find and man pages on this subject and I really do > not want to have > to reinstall the system. There must be an easy way. Could some one point me > in the right > direction before I mess something up? > > Jim Baxter > MIS > Morrison Supply Company > Hey Jim! Just connect the drive, (machine off) making sure you have it set correctly... master/slave settings... plugin the power, power up. Once logged in as root, run fdisk, then mke2fs /dev/hdXX (<---whatever XX is), and then mount -t ext2 /dev/hdXX /mountpoint and it's there. See: man fdisk, man mkfs, man mount, plus whatever else you can glean from /usr/docs : Ric "Wayward" Moore : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : "If you can afford it, you don't want it" : :--------------: New motto for Y2k : -----------: : owned and trained by Calamity & Satin : :-----------------------------------------------: -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
