Newbie Question about drives........

[Bigjohnjr]

I just installed Mandrake Linux 8.0 today.
I am using Kde as my desktop and after getting it working fine I then reset my computer and plugged in my other hard drive.
How can I get kde to see it. I read somewhere about supermount but I am at a loss. I can see my floopy, cd rom and zip drive. The other drive is fat32 and full of mp3's I just want to be able to see it.

I am just starting to learn... :p

[jaygee432]

You need to designate a mount point or create a folder for it, e.g., /win, then mount your drive to it. There may be something handier in Mdk 8 for this, but when I had Mdk 7, I used linuxconf.

[carlywarly]

If you go into Mandrake Control Centre, as root, choose Hardware - Hardware. HardDrake comes up, choose Disks, and click on your new drive, hdb, perhaps. Then run the configuration tool, which should let you give it a new mount point, so that Mandrake can see it.

[ 27 August 2001: Message edited by: carlywarly ]

[Rastar]

Originally posted by carlywarly:
<STRONG>If you go into Mandrake Control Centre, as root, choose Hardware - Hardware. HardDrake comes up, choose Disks, and click on your new drive, hdb, perhaps. Then run the configuration tool, which should let you give it a new mount point, so that Mandrake can see it.

[ 27 August 2001: Message edited by: carlywarly ]</STRONG>

Running RH7.1 do you know how to do it under RH7.1 I have a 3.3 gig drive that is hosed wrong fs bad superblock etc. A handy one screen format tool would be great.

Rastar

[Strike]

This belongs in General Linux Questions, moving there.

[Psycho]

You can use linuxconf if you installed it, if not linuxconf-xxx.rpm is on disk 2. It installs to /sbin which isn't in the path.

Or you can make a directory for it on /mnt and add it to /etc/fstab.

There may even a gui tool there somewhere, but I didn't locate it after a quick look around ;)

--glenn