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

[Don Parris]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:38:42 +0000, Ruth Marlene Friesen
<bouquet at ruthes-secretroses.com> wrote:
> 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!)
> 
Apparently, that's the kind of thing that drives a number of people to
GNU/Linux.  SUSE 9.2 automatically detected AND configured my HP 970
Cse printer.  I still have have hard feelings about reinstalling Win
98 because something didn't go right during the installation of that
same printer.  At that time, I had a Win98 upgrade.  So I had to
re-install DOS/Win3.11 to re-install Wn98.

> 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)?
> 
It definitely has to do with mount points.  Unfortunately, I've never
run more than one drive with Linux.  I really should try it, if only
for the learning experience.  I do know there are articles, maybe even
how-tos describing the process.  Look in you /usr/share/docs folder to
see if there's a how-to for adding a second hard disk.  I'll look when
I get home tonight.

I'm sure the others will be able to offer better help than I can at
the moment.  But perhaps this will get you started in the right
direction.

Grace & Peace,
Don

> 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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