Seeing my other drive?

[Bigjohnjr]

I just installed Mandrake linux today (first time user) After installing it and got up an running I shut it down and plugged my other drive that has just mp3's on it. How do I get to that drive? I also can not see my cd drive either, but I can see my zip drive fine.

Thanks
John
:D

[rdeschene]

A good place to start is the NHF, under Hardware, and installing a new drive. Of course, because this drive already has information you want on it, you will NOT want to partition it or make a file system on it.

Assuming you setup the BIOS so that this second harddrive is "seen" my the hardware, you should be able to pretty much just: find out the device name (e.g. /dev/hdb1) using dmesg, and then mount it to your directory of choice (e.g. /new) using a command such as:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /new

This is assuming that the new drive has the Windows filesystem with long filename support (i.e. vfat). See man mount for details. :)

[Bigjohnjr]

I tried that. I get a message "only root can do that"

I booted up into kde and when into termanal.

I guess I did it wrong.

So close yet so far...........
:confused: :confused:

[bdg1983]

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Please don't crosspost as we can see all the posts in all the forums.

One of my rules is I do not respond to those.

[ 27 August 2001: Message edited by: mdwatts the 3rd ]

[rdeschene]

bigjohnjr. Yes, the mount command is generally available to only 'root'. If you open a terminal window, you can type su, press <ENTER>, and enter the root password when prompted. su is short for "super-user", a.k.a. "root", here.

Then mount should work. I refer you, again, to the NHF and note again that formatting and making a file system is not necessary.

Good luck.
Rick D.