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this one should be pretty easy. i just installed a new hard drive on rh9 and want to make sure i can use it. i know the original works, but how do i see the new one? and... i could also stand to know how to partition it since the OS is already installed on the other. thank you for your support.
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
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how is the drive connected..i.e. primary slave, secondary master..etc. i ask because it will make a difference w/the drive letter. you should be able to
cfdisk /dev/hdx (where x is the drive letter of the new drive)
cfdisk /dev/hdb gives me "command not found"
fdisk /dev/hdb gives me "Unable to open /dev/hdb"
i was able to make directory for hdb in /mtn, and it shows the cdrom and now hdb, but how do i know its actually the new hard drive?
Yeah, and after that is the partitioning and mounting. Just check the list of devices that your BIOS [ushould[/u] give you at startup, or enter the BIOS setup to view them if it doesn't show anything.
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