Hansen Loke wrote:
>I'm a newbie! and still have trouble with the Linux installation, where I still
>can't read my other hard drive partitions
>
To examin the set-up of your partitions you use the fdisk utility in
list mode.
Be sure to append the -l to the fdisk command, or you will have fdisk in
partition table edit mode.
You DON'T want that!!!
Here is the fdisk command in list mode and its output on my machine:
[chris@berty chris]$ su
Password:
[root@berty chris]# /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1099
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 2
16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 3 1099
8811652+ 5 Extended
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 3 27
200781 83 Linux
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 28 55
224878+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 56 758
5646816 83 Linux
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 759 947
1518111 83 Linux
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 948 1099
1220908+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1002
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 1 1002
1026032 83 Linux
Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8960
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 1 8960
4233568+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8960
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 8960
4233568+ 83 Linux
[root@berty chris]#
What happens on your machine if you do that?
You will then have to mount the partitions to which you wish to have
access.
Once again here is the mount command and its output on my machine:
[root@berty chris]# mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
devfs on /dev type devfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda9 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /home2 type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/disk1 type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdc1 on /mnt/disk2 type ext2 (rw)
[root@berty chris]#
As you can see from the above mount list I have two disks which are not
in the normal run of things, namely:
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/disk1 type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdc1 on /mnt/disk2 type ext2 (rw)
In order to do this I created two new directories in the /mnt directory:-
# mkdir /mnt/disk1
# mkdir /mnt/disk2
and then mounted the disks.
# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk1
# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/disk2
the '-t ext2' tells the mount command that it is to mount an ext2 type
of linux file-system,
you will need to substitute the correct flag for the types of
file-systems you wish to mount.
you should have access to the file-systems now. See:-
[root@berty chris]# exit
exit
[chris@berty chris]$ ls /mnt/disk1/isos/
debian/ Mandrake/ OpenOffice/ slackware/ VALinux/
gentoo/ Mandrake82updated/ peanut/ smalltalk/ winlinux/
[chris@berty chris]$
You can get the whole story about these commands by using the man command:-
$ man fdisk
$ man mkdir
$ man mount
Clear as mud now?
>after weeks of corresponding with this newsgroup.
>
For a plea for help from a mail list, or news group, to be effective you
need to tell us the basic info about your machine and the distribution.
This really is a big, big help, especially if we are trying to get
something like a video or sound card to work. For generic stuff like the
above it's not quite so important.
>Anyone wouldn't mind performing a site visit to help me set it up?
>
One of the really useful features of unix and its offspring is that all
this command line stuff can be done remotely over the Internet, or for
that matter a direct connection via the phone. I installed and set up a
database system for a fellow in California not so long ago doing it this
way.
>I live close to the Cant. Uni. I envisage the setup should not take too long,
>
All of 5 mins at the most I should think.
>unless a re-installation is required. Email me and we can set up a time.
>
Please feel free to 'phone. Number's correct in the latest 'phone book.
Here endeth the Lesson. :-)
--
Christopher Sawtell.
