[lug] Trivial

[Atkinson, Chip]

Depends on whether or not it's SCSI or IDE and if you have the space for it.
Assuming you do, shut down the machine, power it off, install the drive.
Power the machine up and see if the new disk is visisble from either the
motherboard BIOS (ide) or the scsi card bios (scsi).  Let the machine boot
up to linux.  Then fdisk the new drive, for example, fdisk /dev/sdd,
partition it as you need and exit fdisk with write.  Then create the file
system(s) on the disk, for example, mkext2fs -C /dev/sdd1.  Create a mount
point, /newdisk (say). Finally, once you get the file system made, modify
/etc/fstab to mount the new partition.

Hope that helps.  Double check the man pages to verify my arguments.  The -C
is supposed to check for bad blocks.  You may also have special
requirements, for example, having a larger than normal number of i-nodes.

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shannon Johnston [mailto:nunar at iws.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:59 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Trivial
> 
> 
> I know this seems like a trivial question, but I'm wondering 
> if there's a
> special procedure for installing another HD in a Linux desktop system?
> 
> Shannon
> 
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