Re: Installation of hard drive

Andres Migliazzo wrote:
Hi,
Please, login as root and run the comand "mount", then show us the standar output AND the /etc/fstab file. Tell us which is the file systems that you have used on new disk partitions (VFAT, EXT2/3, NTFS, UFS, REISERFS, etc).

Regards

On Jan 25, 2008 4:13 PM, Pantor <pantor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pantor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

KS wrote:
> Pantor wrote:
>> KS wrote:
>>> Pantor wrote:
>>>> Lads,
>>>>
>>>> would you be able to advice please, how to install a second
hard drive
>>>> which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard
drive has
>>>> been plugged in. Windows should be cleared, but how thee partition
>>>> works?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> Andrius
>>> I would just connect the hard disk and boot. My new/old hard
disks have
>>> been detected without a hitch when booting. Then comes the use of a
>>> partitioning tool like cfdisk, fdisk, etc. and after that you
can use
>>> mkfs to create the file system. If you like using the GUI more,
install
>>> gparted or qtparted and use that to partition and format the
hard disk.
>>>
>>> HTH
>> If to boot then windows will boot. Gparted
>> shows:
>> > 89-125-103-244:/home/andrius# gparted
>>> ======================
>>> libparted : 1.7.1
>>> automounting disabled
>>> ======================
>>> Unable to open /dev/hda read-write (Read-only file system).
/dev/hda
>>> has been opened read-only.
>>> Unable to open /dev/hda - unrecognised disk label.
>> Andrius
>>
>
> Where do you have Debian installed? /dev/hdb? Where did you install
> Grub? You need to give more details about your setup.
>
>

Debian installed on sda,
New disk hdc installed and partitioned, but still not visible in media:/


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It seems tha a mistake was made in last line.
> ># /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 ext3 default 2 1

Instead "default" should be "defaults". But after change a error message "permission denied" appear in Konqueror window.


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