adding another internal H.D

crAckZ · 09-02-2005, 08:17 PM

i bought another H.D and set it to slave. i am either going to work on LFS cuase i want to start working to LPI cert or as a playground for beta software and programming.
my questions.
1. should i mount this underr /mnt/HDB?
2. can i partition it ext3/swap/ext3 but config lilo to boot it so i doont have to worry about a bootloader.

Code:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label="foo"
        root=/dev/hdb1
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append="hdb resume=/dev/hdb5"

i am sure i can wade through this but i would rather be sure.
edit: maybe this should be in hardware, if a mod could toss it over there, thank you

jailbait · 09-03-2005, 01:40 PM

"1. should i mount this underr /mnt/HDB?"

You can mount it on any empty directory, wherever is convenient for you. Set the permissions of the mount poiint before you mount there.

"2. can i partition it ext3/swap/ext3"

Yes.

"but config lilo to boot it so i doont have to worry about a bootloader. "

You can only have one boot loader installed on your MBR. So yes, add an image section for LFS to your /etc/lilo.conf on mandriva.

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Steve Stites

jdogpc · 09-03-2005, 01:42 PM

You can mount it wherever you want it to be and with whatever FS you want as long as long as it is supported by your distro.

Just change your /etc/fstab to reflect the new mount point and fs type.

As for your doubt of lilo I can't understand it.