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

[Jukka]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:22:20 +0000, Ruth Marlene Friesen
<bouquet at ruthes-secretroses.com> wrote:
> Thank you, to both Jukka & Don,
> It would be good to leave things along for a while (I'm getting a bit
> weary of changes) but I'll settle for temporary access to get those
> files transferred.
> 
> With your encouragement, I tried that this morning, pouring over that
> article again too, and I felt I got somewhere when I gave this
> command; # fdisk -l /dev/hdg
> 
> and saw all this;
> Disk /dev/hdg: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdg1   *         1       274   2200873+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdg2           275      2540  18201645    5  Extended
> /dev/hdg5           275       367    746991   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hdg6           368       468    811251   83  Linux
> /dev/hdg7           469       733   2128581   83  Linux
> /dev/hdg8           734      2023  10361893+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdg9          2024      2087    514048+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdg10         2088      2480   3156741    b  Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdg11         2481      2540    481918+  83  Linux
> 
> The + signs indicate the partitions with my data, right?
> So I used the mkdir /mnt/hdg1 (thru 11) to make new directories for
> all those partitions. Then, per the article, used
> mount /dev/hdg1 /mnt/hdg1 (thru 11) as the commands to mount
> them. About at hdg9 I got a friendly notice that I wasn't doing that
> quite right. Sorry, I forgot to copy paste that into my text file.

I am not sure what +-sign means, but that partition table looks quite
a monster to me :), (usually I have only two "Linux" partitions - one
for / and one for /home -, one "Linux swap" and one FAT32 (Win98)
partition.

> I went to check in DrakControl and it appeared most of the partitions
> were now mounted, but when I went into Konqueror to see if I could
> actually get a hold of the files, those new directories were empty.
>
> Thinking it might be a matter of re-booting first, I exited and went in
> again, but nope... can't see the files yet.

If those partitions were really mounted, I'm out of ideas... I'd like
to help you more, but since I am tied to graphical interfaces and I
use a different distribution, my instructions are probably useless for
you...:-(

> I'm beginning to wonder now about just adding the boot section tot
> my main boot screen and then fixing things from within that drive.

It is one alternative.

> Or - if I tried to re-install Mandrake, would it leave my files intact and
> sort of fix the system files around them?

It may be the easiest way - just make sure Mandrake installs itself
somewhere else than "/dev/hdg". My distribution (Suse 9.1) places
icons - representing unused disks/partitions - on the desktop.

Blessings,
Jukka