Noticing that I only have 54 megs left on my / partition, I decided to
slot in a second hard drive on hdd and partition it up for /tmp /var
and a second swap. I created new mount points: /tmp2 /var2 and
formatted the hard drive using diskdrake. Problem: I accidentally left
one of the drive's old partitions mounted. diskdrake moaned, so I
unmounted and started again. Success. Then I restarted the machine
into single user mode to transfer things across and re-name the mount
points. Problem: hdd seems to have vanished. hdparm says:
# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd: Device not configured
hdd is no longer visible in diskdrake, so I tried restarting off the
cdrom to see if the install procedure could see the hard drive and its
partitions. It can and I successfully deleted the old partitions. Then
I restarted into standard boot-up - still no luck. I'm stumped!
tom
