external hardisk

pantera · 10-11-2004, 12:44 AM

can we install external hardisk for red hat9

jordanGSU · 10-12-2004, 09:42 PM

Do you mean mount an external hard drive so you can access files from it?
or
Install an OS to it?

I have a USB external hard drive that I use with my laptop occasionally...to mount it, I use a command like:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbHD

*note-I access the hard drive through the /dev/sda1 block device, not sure if it will be the same on your system, but worth a try.

pantera · 10-16-2004, 07:03 AM

i am getting this error when
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
when i put mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
and /etc/fstab is
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat umask=000,users 0 0