DaZman Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 Hey i have been a user of Mandrake for a while and have found all i need in the UserBoard. Thats why i do not have many posts. Many thanks to everyone :D But i have just added a second hdd and need to know how to add it into the system without a reinstall. PS i am a GUI Person I have Some terminal eXperience thanks to DOIson. My System AMD 2100xp 515ram 1x 80g hdd 1x dvd MDK 9.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 Unless you have harddrake disabled, mdk should know its there. Go to mandrake control centre, mount points, hard drives, hda, will be your first hard drive, hdb should be your second. Click on both to see which drive linux is on, the partitions will be listed. Assuming your new drive is hdb, simply set up the partitions, size needed, and file system you want , fat for windows, reiserfs or ext2 for linux, ( for linux my prefference reiserfs ) mdk will do the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaZman Posted November 28, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 I have tryed that but it does not show up in harddrake. hda is the only drive?? Thanks for the quick reply :D The new hard disk does show up in the system bios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 Try using Fdisk to format the drive, should be recognised then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 fdisk??? PFFTTT!!! open a console shell,... su to root,... type: diskdrake Diskdrake should then find hdb. You can then partition and format it to hearts content, simply and easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 fdisk??? PFFTTT!!! open a console shell,... su to root,... type: diskdrake Diskdrake should then find hdb. You can then partition and format it to hearts content, simply and easily. Already told him to do that, the gui way, (as he prefers ) he says, hdb not listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaZman Posted December 1, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2002 Well i could not get anything to work so i just went out and get my self a MDK Powerpack box and installed it onto the new hdd i thought it was time to put somthing back into Mandrakesoft :D all is working well now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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