External drive now internal - Mandrake made it a swap
Hello All! I've been a Mandrake user now for 6 months with good success. Every once in a while I run across something that makes me wonder.
I have looked around on the web for an answer to this question but can't really figure out how to word my question... <grin!>
I have a FAT32 HDD (200GB) that I keep my pictures/music/media on. I have been using it as an external drive via a USB 2.0 enclosure. I decided to move it into my computer case so I don't have to re-mount it each time I fire up Linux. and use a spare smaller drive as the external drive for portability.
Anyhow I installed it as the slave drive to the master boot drive on IDE 0. The boot drive hold the remants of my whithering XP installation. (As a need is filled by Linux I remove that feature from XP.)
On IDE 1 I have a HDD for Linux (master and contains all the Linux partitions) and a DVD-RW drive (slave).
On a PCI IDE card I have an old CD drive (master) to wear out playing music (keeps the miles off the DVD drive).
After I installed the HDD Linux designated it as a SWAP drive. I tried to unmount it and change it's mount point but no luck. A SWAP drive is like a temporary drive right? Consequently I have stopped using Linux until I understand the problem b/c I don't want Linux to suddenly delete the drive's contents. FWIW XP sees and accesses the new drive just final and the data is intact.
Help! Educate me. Just want to designate it as a normal drive that I can access as I like. Most of all I want Amarok to use this as it's music library drive. I'll also point MythTV to that once I understand how to get past the setup page - - - but that's another problem for another time.
Last request: how do I get the icons to stay put each time I restart Linux? mine move all over the place...
THANKS to everyone that has made Linux so interesting. I'm so tired of the Microsoft monster...
Godd night...
Chris
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