Eric Budinger wrote: > > 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"
You can't just mount /dev/hdc, you'll need to set up the partitions, and mount those. IE: /dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. > > How do I see if linux even see's the other harddrive? Um... 'cat /proc/ide' should tell you if it's there. Ric > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
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