Re: [PLUG] Re Newbie's first question - chose to install HD temporarily ?

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

I think you will only have one partition on the new drive. It should come
up as /dev/hdb if it is slave on same bus as boot drive.

Therefore to mount you can do:

mount -t vfat drive_to_mount mountpoint

or in your case

mkdir -p /mnt/dos (make mountpoint)
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos

now you can point your nearest filemanager at /mnt/dos (or wherever you
want to mount this drive).

This will go away on reboot. To make this permanent do:

/dev/hdb1	/mnt/dos			vfat	rw 	0 1

If you have a more drives (d:), you can use /dev/hdb3. and so on: (e:)
might be /dev/hdb3.

You can find out by doing a:

fdisk -l /dev/hdb

which will show all partitions and what kind they are. Don't forget the
-l!

Fred



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