On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:26 -0700, david c cooke wrote: > Have existing HDD with old Fedora operating system > that I made USB external for data backups. > > If I have it on at boot time with the new FC5 machine, > it can't handle and hangs the process. I can't see it > after boot. > Don't have it on at boot time. Instead, boot, then attach the USB drive. Use fdisk to repartiton it so you eliminate the _probably_ conflicting labels. Finally, use mke2fs for each of the new partitions and you will be ready to use it. > Can I make an entry to /etc/fstab, like hdb or hdb2, to get the drive in > rw mode? Probably format then partition the beast before installing a > filing system, whatever type you think is best suited? > The usb drive will show up as sda, not hda > Thanks, > David > > > >
