Re: [newbie] Second hard drive
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 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. 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
Re: [newbie] Second hard drive
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. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Second hard drive
If its primary slave, shouldn't it be hdb1, not hdd1? I know all those names, haveing 4 hard drives in my system, includeing cd, with 7 partitions. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 4:05 AM Subject: [newbie] Second hard drive 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. 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
RE: [newbie] Second hard drive
Title: RE: [newbie] Second hard drive Two replies and both are right. I set it up on the secondary (ide1) so it is hdd as the secondary slave. Sorry for giving out the wrong info when asking for help. Only serves to confuse the issue. I am going to download diskdrake and try that for partitioning and formatting. Thanks, I'll let you all know how this comes out. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Goldenpi Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Second hard drive If its primary slave, shouldn't it be hdb1, not hdd1? I know all those names, haveing 4 hard drives in my system, includeing cd, with 7 partitions. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 4:05 AM Subject: [newbie] Second hard drive 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. 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
Re: [newbie] Second hard drive
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: You may want to try doing this with DiskDrake. That worked for me. Paul 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. 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 -- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -H.G. Wells )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
