Re: AW: [cobalt-users] [Qube3] Adding a 2nd Harddrive?

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 08:45 am, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Saturday 04 May 2002 05:30 am, Andreas Cahen wrote:
> > Hi Gerald,
> >
> > I checked every menu and didn't find an entry like that.. could
> > you be please more specific?
>
> Well, I just looked and I could not find it either...
> I thought it was there - like the RaQ.
> I also looked in the manual and the archives.
> Are you sure that re-booting, the system did not find the second drive...
> look at /var/log/dmesg
> if you do df what does it say...
> the second drive should be hdc
> Make sure it is jumpered as a Master.
> also look at
> /etcfstab   and    /etc/mtab   for a drive hdcX
> =================================
>
> try this manual install as root (no "")
> The first command won't work if the drive was not detected.
> "fdisk /dev/hdc"
> "mke2fs -cv /dev/hdc1"
> "cd /mnt"
> "mkdir driveC"
> "chmod 777 driveC"
> "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/driveC"
> "cd /mnt/driveC"
> Now write a file
> "touch test"   then run  "ls"  (you should see test)
> "vi [or pico -w] /etc/fstab"
> Add this line
> /dev/hdc1	/mnt/driveC

Sorry this should be 
/dev/hdc1  /mnt/driveC   ext2  defaults  1 1


> Reboot and see it it mounts....
>
> "ls /mnt/driveC"
> you should see the test file
> You can also put the file someplace else,
> it does not have to be /mnt
> just change the directions referencing /mnt/driveC

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