On Thursday 31 October 2002 00.09, Frits Wüthrich wrote:
I am running SuSE8.1 and WindowsME with GRUB on this machine, with a 10GB disk. That is not big enough, since I scan a lot of photographs, ending up with 54MB per photo. That is about 2GB for 37 exposures. I want to install a second hard disk as the IDE slave to the current master hard disk. How do I do that as far as the software installation goes? It would be OK if that new disk is FAT32 only, so both Windows and SuSE have access to it. Do I start up WindowsME through GRUB, and then format this new drive from Windows?
You can format it from linux. If the new drive is slave on the first IDE cable it'll be hdb. Create a partition on it first, using yast2. This will be hdb1. mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdb1 will then format the partition using FAT32. Next create an entry in the file /etc/fstab, looking something like this /dev/hdb1 /windows/D vfat defaults 0 0 /windows/D is where the drive will be mounted. Create this directory using "mkdir /windows/D". Finally mount it with "mount /windows/D". All of the above should be done as root. regards Anders