Richard Ibbotson wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I've been thinking about putting a second IDE hard disc into my
> Linux box for a while now. I know that Linux is probably easy to
> configure for a second disc. I've got a spare 1Gb IDE HD which would
> do the job
>
> How would I go about doing this with SuSE 6.0 ? Do I have to troil
> away with the keyboard for a week or do I just install the disc and
> that's it ?
>
> The other thing is are there any web sites or Howtos on this ?
The biggest problem is making sure you get the master-slave
settings right between drives, and your ide cdrom, if you have one.
Let's assume you have /dev/hda as master on controller cable 1,
and your cdrom is slave on controller 1.
Put your new drive as a master on controller2 , that means
you will need to plug a new cable into the motherboard in the
ide2 connector.
Then make sure you go into your bios and tell the system you have
a second drive, most modern bioses will find it automatically
for you.
Then start linux, as root, "fdisk /dev/hdc" and make
at least 1 primary partition.
Then reboot, and
mke2fs /dev/hdc1 to make an ext2 filesystem on your new partition.
Then " mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt"
and your partition is mounted. You can automatically
mount it with an entry in /etc/fstab.
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