Il mer, 2006-01-25 alle 22:09, Les Mikesell ha scritto: > > You have to mount the partition(s) from your other hard drive > somewhere. If you run 'fdisk -l' you should see all of > the partitions and one on the 2nd drive might be something > like /dev/hdb1. Make a directory for it somewhere and > mount it with (as root) 'mount /dev/hdxx /path/to/dir'. > If the system doesn't figure out the filesystem type > you can add -t vfat after the mount command. If you > want it to be automatically mounted at boot time you > can make an entry in /etc/fstab for it. Ok, sorry if I ask foolish questions, but I am totally ignorant about the Linux/Fedora environment. 1. How do I run the command fdisk? I can't find a command line here, Fedora runs a windows interface... 2. same ith the mount command 3. I found the fstab file in the etc folder, but how do I edit it? Is there a specific program for that? > I'd expect this to be found automatically and show up on the > desktop. Try unplugging and hotplugging to see if it is > recognized then. If not, do a 'dmesg' and look towards the > end of the listing for a /dev/sdxx device to show up. That > can be mounted in the same way as the /dev/hdxx. The > fat format has some limitations. If you only plan to use the > drive with Linux you might want to 'mkfs -t ext3' the > partition (warning - that will destroy the current contents). If by hotplugging you mean plugging in when the machine is already on and the OS running, well it doesn't work. As for the other way to do it, Ok, I might try but - same as before - where do I issue a dmesg command and/or the mkfs command (the external HD is empty, so at least that is not a problem)? Sorry for bothering you, but my computer user life so far has been spent only on DOS, OS/2 and Windows. ur
