I don't know if the latest RH distro has it but Mandrake comes with Webmin
and it has a pretty good interface for setting up drives. If I recall it
will handle partitioning, formatting and getting the correct entries into
/etc/fstab.
Ed
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Just to reiterate a bit on Kurth.
> The linux fdisk command can be used to set up the partitions on the new
> disk. Once you set up the partitions, run mkfs on each partition to create
> a file system on them. Then, add the appropriate entries to the /etc/fstab
> file so the partitions can be mounted when you boot.
> You might be able to do this through Linuxconf. (I am a SuSE user, and
> their YaST utility can be used to do all of this. Red Hat also has Disk
> Druid, which I hate, but that is just my opinion).
> On 26 Oct 2000, at 8:17, csmith wrote:
>
> > I want to install another hard drive in one of my computers, but I am
> > unsure of just how to set it up (ie format the drive with what program
> > and then reboot?? any suggestions will be apriciated I am running
> > redhat 6.1
>
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> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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