[newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
When i installed mandrake i had two hard drives, my primary which has mandrake and my secondary which had a destroyed install of mandrake on it. When i put mandrake on my primary the secondary was no longer seen by the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Nov 1 22:10:25 EST 2003 22:10:25 up 19:20, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.06 There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. -- G.K. Chesterton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:17:27 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Or do i just set a mount point from diskdrake like /mount/windows, i dont want to mess up my perfectly good bootable linux system lol. Any help apreciated. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Nov 1 22:28:28 EST 2003 22:28:28 up 19:38, 2 users, load average: 0.77, 0.26, 0.08 And in the heartbreak years that lie ahead, Be true to yourself and the Grateful Dead. -- Joan Baez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 14:17, Dan Gordon wrote: When i installed mandrake i had two hard drives, my primary which has mandrake and my secondary which had a destroyed install of mandrake on it. When i put mandrake on my primary the secondary was no longer seen by the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Regards, Dan Gordon You only need to mount it. You can do this in diskdrake as well. No change to lilo or anything else. Answer yes when diskdrake asks if you want the changes written to fstab. But why use fat32? Unless of course you are dual booting windoze and want to share data between W$ and Mandrake via this drive. Otherwise, there's no good reason not to use a decent journalized filesystem like reiser or xfs or ext3. Reiser is my preference, but any of them are far better than fat32! HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:31 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:17:27 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Or do i just set a mount point from diskdrake like /mount/windows, i dont want to mess up my perfectly good bootable linux system lol. Any help apreciated. Regards, Dan Gordon Since you have already formatted if you use diskdrake to give it a label such as /mnt/windows then the system should ask if you want this written to fstab. Answer yes and it will become accessable. He said hopefully. Anyhoo, that is the way it should work. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 14:47:40 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why use fat32? Unless of course you are dual booting windoze and want to share data between W$ and Mandrake via this drive. Otherwise, there's no good reason not to use a decent journalized filesystem like reiser or xfs or ext3. Reiser is my preference, but any of them are far better than fat32! Thanks for the advice i went with ext3 and mounted it as windows just for the heck of it. Had to change permissions on it and it is fine. Thanks for the help, and you too Brian Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Nov 1 23:41:19 EST 2003 23:41:19 up 14 min, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.14, 0.09 All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
