Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist

2010-01-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: [snip] > > All I know is that at one time, the external drive was recognized > on /dev/sda and at that time I formatted the drive for swap space and > ran swapon /dev/sda1 Now for some reason it doesn't work. I want it to > work. > > Could

[gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist

2010-01-02 Thread walt
On 01/02/2010 06:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 11:37 -0800, walt wrote: On 01/01/2010 05:48 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: Hello My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for additional

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist [SOLVED somehow]

2010-01-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I guess I should have checked before I sent that last post because > now /dev/sda is there.  Now, how do I make it be there when I first boot > into Linux? If your / filesystem is on the USB drive, you need to insert a delay before mountin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist [SOLVED somehow]

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
I guess I should have checked before I sent that last post because now /dev/sda is there. Now, how do I make it be there when I first boot into Linux? On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 08:35 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 11:37 -0800, walt wrote: > > On 01/01/2010 05:48 AM, Michael Su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 11:37 -0800, walt wrote: > On 01/01/2010 05:48 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Hello > > > > My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive > > into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for > > additional swap space. It used to work.

[gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist

2010-01-01 Thread walt
On 01/01/2010 05:48 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: Hello My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for additional swap space. It used to work. The swap space is supposed to be /dev/sda1. The problem is that