[H-GEN] Slave H/D

[Harry Phillips]

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David Munn wrote:
> Hi All.....im new to this list so if i make a blue please be gentle....

Welcome, just remember trim and don't top post, it makes alot of the old 
timers upset :)

> I want to know how to use another h/d as a slave to my master h/d on Linux..
> what do i have to have on the slave for it to work.....
> The present system is a Pentium 200,40 gig h/d,80 meg ram,Red Hat 8.0 running 
> KDE 3,52x cdrom drive,3.5 floppy,VibraX 128 soundcard,Diamond 56k external 
> modem,Canon BJC-265SP printer,Reateck PCI Network card......
> The h/d that i want to use as a slave is a 2 gig Western Digital Caviar 
> 32500.....
> 
> Any help ideas and tips would be appreciated....
> 

Well persoanlly I like using the Mandrake installer to do my partitioning.

I boot on the installation disk, partition the new HDD, writing down 
what the new partition names are (/dev/hdb1 etc) then reboot.

I edit my /etc/fstab manually to add in the new partitions and their 
mount points.

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Regards,
Harry Phillips

--- Failure is not an option,
     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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