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i have a RH8 box. and it runs quite smooth and i am quite happy with that. now, i want to plug in another new, unformatted harddisk, as a slave. so, what should i do? pls, tell me how should i do. pls, advise.
i am only using RH, no other OS. ok, in my hardware-browser i can see the hd. good! then, how? i have to format it anyway... either to ext2 or ext3. how? and how am i going to use this harddisk? mount it understand a folder? pls revise ASAP. thanks
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shutdown the computer
plug the hd and set the jumper
boot
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create partition table (using cfdisk, diskdruid or fdisk)
format (mke2fs)
mount it (mount /dev/hd** /mnt/newhd_or_whatever)
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