### Brant Fitzsimmons: "Re: [Cooker] Auto configure new hard drives?"... #Olof Bjarnason wrote: # #>Hi all! #> #>I hope this is the right mailing list to send this mail to; #>I tried to find the accurate one. #> #>I am relatively new to Linux, specifically to the Mandrake #>distribution. #> #>>From what I have gathered so far about Mandrake, it has a strong #>aim at beeing user-friendly and makes such bald statements as #>beeing the "Best OS for the novice and expert". #> #>So far some of what I have seen is quite user-friendly in my eyes, #>eg. the installation was very clear and non-obfuscated, and the #>autoconfiguring of window managers is really good. But best of all #>is the Mandrake control central, which I view as the real key to #>Mandrake's future. I have not yet tried the "download/install new #>program"-system, which I've heard should be [quite] automated with #>features such as automatic dependency analysis & download/install. #> #>But: yesterday I wanted to access my old 4GB harddrive, which #>contain an installation of Windows XP and is in ntfs file system #>format. I put it in the computer and checked that BIOS found my #>harddrive and all was clear; naively I though "Mandrake will #>auto-configure my new hard drive". #> #>Sadly, this wasn't the case. I had to read through 'mount' #>documentationand hey - I am back in RedHat Linux, which was the #>previous Linux dist I used and didn't like because of the *giant* load #>of administrative work I had to perform just to install a single #>program, for example. #> #>Shouldn't an OS claiming "user-friendliness" auto configure new #>hard drives installed in the system? Or am I doing something wrong, #>perhaps the Control Center can help me out? If this is the case, #>please give me a pointer, and I apologize for taking up your time. #> #>See you, #> #>/Olof #> #> #> #Does Windows *automatically* configure drives added that were previously #used with other OSs?
I guess not, but does Mandrake automatically configure new drives which are in the ext2 file system format? Anyway, since linux *can* do this, and Mandrake specifically announces itself as being user-friendly etc., it should, don't you agree? /Olof
