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Re: adding new Hard Disk to sarge



Mr Mike wrote:

On Thursday 17 February 2005 01:23 pm, Justin Pryzby wrote:
Someone on freenode #debian tried to tell me I need an empty directory to
mount the drive to just like a removable media (/media/floppy
/media/cdrom etc..) but I know that isn't right.
I think it is right; (but the directory doesn't have to be empty; you
can mount something anywhere you like).

i created directory 'mgm' under /mnt so there would be an empty /mnt/mgm directory for the disk..

However, being a little desperate I tried
it out but that failed too..
What was the message?

Soooo...  anyone have suggestion, solution, ideas...
What is the partition type?  Run file -s /dev/hdc1.
What mount command are you using?

debian:/mnt# file -s /dev/hdc1
/dev/hdc1: ERROR: cannot open `/dev/hdc1' (No such file or directory)

Try something like mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt.

Here is my actual fstab and attempt to manually mount the disk..

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdc1       /mnt/mgm        ext3    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

debian:/etc# mount /dev/hdc1
mount: special device /dev/hdc1 does not exist
debian:/etc# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/mgm
mount: special device /dev/hdc1 does not exist

cd to /mnt  (there are currently two dir here)

 kirk-mike  <<-NFS mount point that works fine.
                 ( mount 192.168.1.10:/home/mike/data/  kirk-mike/ )

 mgm        <<- to mount point for the new ide disk.
                 (that does not work at all)

debian:/mnt# mount mgm
mount: special device /dev/hdc1 does not exist
debian:/mnt#

btw, is there any way to get sarge to recognize new hardware on bootup.
That's mostly up to the kernel, even if there's software like discover
that pretends to find new hardware:)

What hardware doesn't work?

Mdk, RH, SUSE, Connectiva, and others have always detected my new hw on boot and I've grown used to the convience and now sarge seems like a big step backwards in that regard even though it is superior in other aspects...

I'm also haveing issues with my SB Live audio card but that'll have to be ya thread..

--
Justin Pryzby
whois jgalt

You are trying as root, right?

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Regards from,
Old Fart
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(Multiboot play box...don't ask.)
(And, yes my reply-to address is munged.)



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