[CS-FSLUG] Seeing/connecting to another HD installed

[Ruth Marlene Friesen]

Hi Friends,
Don't know if you've missed me, but I've been SUPER busy the last 
week or two. My transition into Mandrake only (from Win98) was 
interrupted with a migration to a newer/better computer that was 
given me, along with a spanking new HP 3-in-1.

Two Saturdays ago I spent a whole day installing Win98 on the 
10GB drive on that second computer I'd been telling you about, after 
I reformatted the whole drive. Took all day, and many tries, but I 
finally succeeded! Praise the Lord!

Then I spent a week moving files and programs in. This was all 
because High Speed had come to our little town, and they told me it 
would only install on Windows. This computer had an ethernet card, 
and USB ports for the 3-in-1, which the old computer didn't. It was 
time to make a complete move.

Crazy thing was, Wind98 there couldn't find the modem. Which I had 
used in Linux. I wanted to get online to download the updates while I 
was waiting for the High speed to be installed. Finally, last Saturday I 
installed Mandrake 9.1 again, on the second half of that 10 GB drive.
It had  NO problem getting online. None. (That's when I really began 
to switch sides mentally and emotionally!)

Well, this Monday I got the High Speed installed. But Win98 couldn't 
seem to work with it right  away. Switched to Mandrake and I was 
online already 3 minutes before the networking wizard advised me to 
discount my other connection if I wanted to continue... <blush> I was 
online from the moment I arrived!

Yesterday I took both computers into the city, and asked the guys at 
Quest Computers to move the 40GB hard drive they had installed in 
my older computer last year, into this newer computer as a 
secondary or slave drive. Then I'd have 50GB all told here. But they 
are NOT Linux fellas.

My Win98 is not even aware of that other drive. When I go into 
Mandrake I can SEE the G drive and it's partitions (including a 
Windows storage area where I had quickly moved a lot of docs I 
want to access from the old drive) from within the Mandrake control 
center, but I can't access it in any other way.

My question is, how do I connect the two drives? Is it something to 
do with the mount points? Or, is there a way of putting the two drives 
on my boot - lilo (I think that's what it's called)?

I would at least like to take the personal files off that drive before I 
reformat it again, and perhaps try some other distros.

Any tips and suggestions gratefully received!





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