Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk
Charles Curley (charlescurley@charlescurley.com) wrote:
> I also made the mistake of figuring that getting lvs installed would
> help solve the problem. I later realized that getting lvs installed
> would be irrelevant: the fact that it is not installed tells us what
> we needed to know: M. Ozlem isn't running LVM, so the solution to the
> problem is not simply to expand the current volume group (VG) onto the
> new hard drive. There is no current VG to expand.
>
> So where do we go from here?
Yes, all of that is true and useful.
The real problem, though, is that the OP apparently *does not have* a
Debian installation at all. They're just sticking a Live USB thingy
into a computer and running Debian from that. Debian is not installed
on their computer, and they've stated that they have no intention of
installing it on their computer -- at least not on the current hard
drive which is dedicated to Microsoft Windows.
Once we learned that, I pretty much stopped paying attention to anything
else they said.
I'm guessing that their goal is to keep booting from their Live USB
thingy, but to use a second hard drive (which does not exist yet) as
some sort of auxiliary storage that will magically hold whatever they
want to install.
I might suggest that a *better* goal would be to install Debian on the
new hard drive (once it exists), and stop booting the Live system.
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