[ale] adding a hard drive

[Geoffrey]

Assuming you've got ide drives, the first is /dev/hda, therefore your 
partitions are /dev/hda1-/dev/hda?.  The second drive would be /dev/hdb.

The easiest way to check it out is run fdisk /dev/hdb.  Then enter 'p' 
to list the current partitions.  Enter 'q' to exit fdisk.

You can either add mount info to your /etc/fstab file to permit you to 
mount the old drives partitions easily, or you can mount them by passing 
the proper parms to mount, as in:

mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /tmpmnt

Mind you, that's assuming your drives are ext2, they may be ext3 or 
reiserfs.  Anyway, that should get you started.  Check the man page for 
mount for more assistance.

Glen Bankston wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> FYI:  I deleted all the RH7.3 files and directories, then downloaded the
> ISO images instead.  After quite a
> few hours, I installed 7.3 with no problems so far.
> 
> NOW! I wanted to copy those ISO files to another hard drive that is also
> a stand alone drive for RH7.0.
> 
> Although the BIOS recognized both drives, Linux only shows the boot
> drive.  Is this because they have the
> same mount points?  The hardware finder found and 'configured' the drive
> a boot time.
> 
> How do I get to hard drive two?  Sorry for the newbie question, never
> ran two hard drives on Linux before
> that are both bootable.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Glen WB4ZNW
> 
> 
> 
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