>   Linux overwrote it when I installed.  I have two
> > hard drives which under DOS were C:  and D:  I assumed  dev/hda1 would be drive 
>harddrive c: and dev/hda2
> > would be harddrive D:.   Apparently not, Linux was installed on hda2 and I assume 
>that was really the C:
> > drive.
> >
> Yep. hd means hard disk, a,b,c and d are devices and 1,2.. are partitions, so hda2 
>is the second partition on your "C"-disk wheras hdb1 would be  primary slave 
>disk:first partition, hdc1 secondary master first partition. get used to this stuff, 
>saves a lot of trouble.
>

So my old hard drive D: is really /dev/hdb1 ?   I'm sure I will be able to use it 
later.  Nothing on the second hard drive but old pornography (old room mate, not mine.)


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