trying out redhat..... cant see my hard drive???

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 01:27 AM

ok.... its secondary master, fat32. im not clear on how to tell if its mounted or not. and there is no "disks" folder. so any suggestions?

jax8 · 07-31-2004, 01:30 AM

Have you got linux installed already?

We need some more information please.

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 01:34 AM

yes. linux is installed. working fine. its redhat 9.0 its on a 15 gig hd. the hd i cant see is a 120gig.

umm.... did i forget anything? if so let me know and i will let you know. thanx for the help

ima

jax8 · 07-31-2004, 01:47 AM

you will have to mount the second hard drive.

make a directory in /mnt called windows

run this command in terminal

mount -t auto /dev/hdb0 /mnt/windows

Then the windows partition should be mounted under /mnt/windows. So go there and all the windows files should be there.

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 01:51 AM

[root@localhost root]# mount -t auto /dev/hdb0 /mnt/windows
mount: special device /dev/hdb0 does not exist

another suggestion?

jax8 · 07-31-2004, 01:52 AM

mount -t auto /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows

try that

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 01:55 AM

ok, that mounted something there, but not my hard drive... i think its the linux drive...?

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 01:57 AM

ok, how do i "unmount" what i mounted?

jax8 · 07-31-2004, 01:59 AM

the hard drives work like this.

hda1 hda2 hda3 etc

the "a" means that this is the primary master hard disk, the number is the partition. so becuase You have two hard disks, I assumed that "hdb1" would be the first partition on the second hard drive.

unmount what you have just done with the following command

umount /mnt/windows

Try with another hard disk

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 02:03 AM

no
its not working. i tried hda1-4 hdb1-4 and the unmount says

[root@localhost root]# umount /mnt/windows
umount: /mnt/windows: device is busy
umount: /mnt/windows: device is busy

maybe i need to give it time.... or restart?

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 02:06 AM

found it.... hdc1 what about the unmount now?

jax8 · 07-31-2004, 02:06 AM

just found this command

/sbin/fdisk -l

This will list all the partitions on your system.

The parition in buysy because your are currently browsing in it.

Get out of the directory you are in by going down a directory

cd ..

now you can unmount.

take a look at the partition in /sbin/fdisk -l and find the FAT32 one, that should be the device you have to give to the mount command.

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 02:09 AM

still it is busy
something i can do to shut down all processes to it?

blackdragon · 07-31-2004, 02:10 AM

sweet
thanx
got it

jax8 · 07-31-2004, 02:11 AM

type

cd /

then unmount and see what happens.

if that does not work we will have to do a lazy unmount with the following command.

umount -l /mnt/windows