cannot access SATA hard drive in Fedora Core 4
I recently installed Fedora Core 4 on my machine (because I lost my SimplyMepis disk and I'm just going to wait until 3.4 comes out to download the ISO). I was dual-booting, but found out how to get everything I need working natively in Linux or through Wine and/or Cedega. So I'm 100% straight Linux now.
Here's how my system is set up hard drive wise: 1 40GB IDE that is my OS 1 160GB SATA that is my "storage" drive. When I was dual-booting, I had the 40GB split in half (NTFS for Win2k and ReiserFS for Mepis) and the 160GB SATA formatted as FAT32 (so that both OS's had read/write abilities). Well when I reformatted the 40GB to just straight Linux, I'm using a distro that I'm not familiar with. With Mepis, all you have to do is click the icon to the /mnt/sda1 drive to mount it, or in terminal type Code:
mount /mnt/sda1 I go to the "Hardware Browser" under "Applications" (I'm using Gnome btw, just to try it out) and I see both hard drives listed. The 40G is /dev/hda and the SATA is /dev/sda So when I try to mount it: Code:
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sda Anyone familiar enough with Fedora to tell me how I can get to my SATA drive? I mainly want to get everything burned off of it so when I reinstall Mepis I can use the SATA as the primary drive and the IDE one as a "backup". |
First off, you'll be wanting to mount a partition of the whole thing, so do make sure you mount /dev/sda1, not just /dev/sda. Secondly, you may need to add a line into /etc/fstab for it, though FC4 should've done so for you.
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never manually updated FSTAB before... how exactly should i write it (don't wanna mess it up, ya know) :)
whoda thunk that Redhat would have need for more "hands-on" stuff? i thought it would've been the other way around. |
I don't think Fedora has ever claimed to be the most user friendly.
In any case, a line for this would look something like: Code:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/fat vfat user,noauto 0 0 |
fedora seems to use /media as a replacement for /mnt, I would probably use /media/sda1 (maybe you like /media/data). don't forget to create the directory /media/sda1 (or what ever you call it).
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thanks for the suggestions guys!
I'm in class right now but when I get home, I'll give this a shot and I'll let you know if it worked or not. |
woo hoo! it worked!
and Rottenmutt, good call on mkdir - i totally would've forgotten that step. thanks guys! once again proving why LQ is the best damn site in the world! of course, there's a vote on the mepis main page today as to whether or not 3.4 is ready for release, so i'll probably just be reformatting it in a few days anyway, but hey, it got me by for now :) |
Glad you got it working. And yeah, LQ is pretty nice. :)
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