Carl, You are exactly right... I only had in the new drive when I did the new install... I later added the old drives ... which are seen on boot, but there are no commands to auto mount them... I am reading the manuals and postings here to learn how to do that... (but am on the cautious side and do not want to screw up what I have... I did that with trying to reset the screen res to one my monitor could not handle and was never able to find a way to undo it and had to reinstall qthing). When I did dmesg as suggested by another post there are references to hdc (which I cannot find in /dev and so can not even mount manually). The read of fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 Thanks all for you help I'll learn this stuff yet- StephenW --- Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

On a fresh install of 9.1 it didnt see the other drives? Or did you remove the drives before install so that /etc/fstab has no entrys for the drives?

BTW post your version and /etc/fstab

CWSIV

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 13:01, Stephen W wrote:

...

Well People- intersting situations: #1:

I have my 4 HDs back in the box. P-Master= RedHat P-Slave= SuSE

S-Master= Win98 (was old C drive with GRUB) S-Slave= old Win drive with most docs on it.

If I boot to RedHat (and do an fdisk -l) it sees everything but S-Master.

If I boot from S-Master that is all that is seen (Win98 does not see its companion)

#2

When I boot RedHat it sees 3 of the HD, but mounts only itself (P-Master). I can manually mount hdb and hdd (hdc is not seen).

How do I get it to see all drives and mount all of them - so I do not need to to it manually with each reboot?

Thanks

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On Monday 07 Jun 2004 08:02, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

if the mount points are missing in /dev then create them as root and watch your permissions .

then fool with fstab. I dislike vi so I use knoppix for these things so I can use kedit and fix a problem in minutes rather than an hour after looking for references to make vi work. I guess its my bad irish temper. but I just dont like inefficient tools.

try joe itś quick and the latest version is darned good and easy to remember key strokes know old wordstar know joe .

BTW there is a short cut. mount all the drives you will multoboot from on the box then log in as root. it should recognize the new hardware and ask if you want to modify fstab permenently.

CWSIV

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:06, Stephen W wrote:

...

Carl, You are exactly right... I only had in the new drive when I did the new install... I later added the old drives ... which are seen on boot, but there are no commands to auto mount them... I am reading the manuals and postings here to learn how to do that... (but am on the cautious side and do not want to screw up what I have... I did that with trying to reset the screen res to one my monitor could not handle and was never able to find a way to undo it and had to reinstall qthing).

When I did dmesg as suggested by another post there are references to hdc (which I cannot find in /dev and so can not even mount manually).

The read of fstab:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Thanks all for you help I'll learn this stuff yet-

StephenW

--- Carl William Spitzer IV

wrote:

...

On a fresh install of 9.1 it didnt see the other drives? Or did you remove the drives before install so that /etc/fstab has no entrys for the drives?

BTW post your version and /etc/fstab

CWSIV

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 13:01, Stephen W wrote:

...

Well People- intersting situations: #1:

I have my 4 HDs back in the box. P-Master= RedHat P-Slave= SuSE

S-Master= Win98 (was old C drive with GRUB) S-Slave= old Win drive with most docs on it.

If I boot to RedHat (and do an fdisk -l) it sees everything but S-Master.

If I boot from S-Master that is all that is seen (Win98 does not see its companion)

#2

When I boot RedHat it sees 3 of the HD, but mounts only itself (P-Master). I can manually mount hdb

and

...

hdd (hdc is not seen).

How do I get it to see all drives and mount all of them - so I do not need to to it manually with

each

...

reboot?

Thanks

===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..."

Proverbs

...

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