How to mount a hard drive

ed1023 · 08-31-2002, 09:54 PM

I just installed Red hat 7.3 and for got to put a mount point in for my other hard drive. The problem is that my other hard drive has the drivers for my video card saved on it. So I'm stuck in command line mode.

I need to know how to do all this in command line mode :find the label that linux puts to my hard drive (hd?). Then i need to know how to create a mount point for it so i can get into it to install my video drivers.

neo77777 · 08-31-2002, 10:04 PM

run
/sbin/fdisk -l
see what is reported to exist on your system, locate the dirve you need to mount, I guess you're trying to mount windows drive - so the filesystem would be either FAT32 or NTFS, then as root create a convinient for you mount point
mkdir /mnt/win
and mount the drive
mount -tvfat /dev/hd<reported by fdisk> /mnt/win
substitute vfat with ntfs if the other drive is NTFS, or if that other drive is a linux drive insert the right filesystem ext2, ext3, reiserFS, etc.