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Okay i have everything working now - never thought i would every say that but i have :-))))

I have one small problem though, i have two hard drives on this beast and i can only seem to access one at the moment, the other one is a fat32 drive - which sa im aware linux reads all file formats so shouldnt be a problem

where shall i look for this, i no its really stupid but i am extremly new at this

i would of though dev/hdb or something but again im new (& blond) :-)

(and for anyone that remembers me - i got my usb adsl modem working !!!!!!!)

Thanks all

[DrZaius]

Hi BP,

Have you mounted the drive first?

[aym]

You need to mount the drive.
Assuming that the FAT32 hard disk is the slave one, and that it uses IDE:
Step 1:
Create an empty folder, you can create it wherever you like, but usually /mnt/ is used, so let's create a folder called fathd in /mnt/.
Step 2:
Switch to super user mode by using the su command and type:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/fathd
Now, move to /mnt/fathd, you'll be able to access the files on the first partition, to access the second partition, you need to use /dev/hdb2 in the mount command, and so on.
When you are done, you need touse the umount command, switch to super user and type:
umount /mnt/fathd
If you are using a SCSI drive, use /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/hdb1 in the mount command.

HTH

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Ah that is great, you cleared up two things in one then

(i wondered wot SU Root meant in all these tutorials i've been reading - now i no) :-)

Thats really sound though, thx loads

(is there a way to have it do it automatically on bootup?)

[aym]

You need to edit /etc/fstab to do it automatically, open /etc/fstab using the text editor you like and entries for your second hard disk, you need to be root to do so.

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Right i have my fstab file - it looks like

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


So if i want to have my second harddrive in there too would te extra line look something like


/dev/hdb1 /mnt/files vfat


Whats missing in this line?

[aym]

You need to add:
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/files vfat auto
This line will mount /dev/hdb1 to /mnt/files when Linux is started.

HTH

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Thx loads :-)