I have Libranet installed on a system with two hard drives but it never reads the second hard drive. During the install it asked me which hard drive I wanted to use. I wasn't able to choose both. There must be a way to format this drive so I can use it. Please help!

To see what (IDE) drives are physically on your system invoke:
ls /proc/ide
You should see something like "drivers hda hdb hdc hdd", where hda is your master drive on your first IDE bus, hdb is your slave on your first IDE bus, hdc is your master on your second IDE bus, and hdd is your slave on your second IDE bus. The files under /proc/ide/hd* will help you identify your files by model and physical size in case you are not sure which is which.

First you need to create a partition on your missing drive. Assuming that hdb is your missing file, you would invoke "fdisk /dev/hda" to start an interactive session with fdisk, and partition your drive. If you are not sure what you are doing, see this how-to:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/...ion/index.html

After you have created your partition, you need to create a file system. Assuming you want to use the Libranet default of ReiserFS, invoke:
mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/hdb1

Finally, create a mount point and mount your system, e.g.:
mkdir /data
mount /dev/hdb1 /data

I use cfdisk. cfdisk actually gives you a nice, menu-driven way to control partitioning. You enter, as root,

cfdisk /dev/hd? where hd? is your hard drive device node.

Then you can add partitions and write the partition table,

qtparted is a nice easy graphical way to see what you are doing with your drives. But it sounds like your BIOS may not be detecting the drive if it did not show up during install. Is it listed in the BIOS at all?

The drive showed up during the install but I was only given the option of installing to one of the two drives (this was during the install of Mandrake 9.2). I'll use the tool you recommended to setup the second drive. Thanks.