I tried the mount command listed at the bottom cause the other hard drive should be hdc but it didn't come up. It said "mnt/ohd does not exist"
How do I see if linux even see's the other harddrive? Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dave Sherman Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:02 AM To: Mandrake-newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] lost drive? On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:47, Eric Budinger wrote: > Hi, > > I just re-installed Linux on my 4 gig hard drive. I have a 4 gig, My > Cdrom and a 1.2 gig. On my 1.2gig is my OLD linux system with my old > HOME directory. Well I don't see my old drive. My 4 gig is my Pri > Master, My CDrom is my Pri Slave and my 1.2 gig is my Sec Master. Help? > > Eric Linux is not like DOS -- you can't just access a drive by its letter or anything like that. Instead, each drive must be mounted on your root filesystem. You can probably access the drive by mounting /dev/hdc (or maybe /dev/hdb, depending upon how the cdrom was detected). The hard drive devices are named 'hdx' (for hard drive x, where 'x' is a, b, c... in order of primacy on the IDE channel). cdrom's sometimes appear as a hard drive if they are ordinary ide drives, or will appear as scsi devices if they are cd burners. So, assuming your second hard drive is /dev/hdb, you can mount it on your root filesystem as a directory, maybe call it /ohd (for 'old hard drive'). Once it is mounted as a directory, you can access it and do whatever copying or transferring of data you need to do. Then, just unmount it and you are ready to go. The mount command might be something like this (must be done as root): mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc /ohd There are lots of other options to the mount command, 'man mount' for more info on it. Dave -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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