URGENT!!! adding ide(hdb-secondary hard-disk) to redhat 7.1
 

hi
i have redhat 7.1 installed in the primary master, a primary slave which has redhat 6.2 installed but cannot be loaded.
i want this 7.1 to read the data in the slave. how do i mount it.
please give in steps with examples (like run this command mount -t /dev.....)
Please hurry and yes i am a novice!!!
thanks
girish:Pengy:

 

OK :)
cd /mnt
mkdir extra
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/extra
Small explanation: if you have many partitions on primary slave, experiment with different numbers (/dev/hdb1,..../dev/hdb8). One of them will work.
To unmount
unmount /mnt/extra

 

I forgot to ask you a question... Why is the RH6.2 installation not booting? Do you need help with this?

You can run fdisk -l /dev/hdb to get a listing of the partitions on hdb. Then just try mounting the ones listed except for the ones named ' extended ' or ' swap '.