Hi Newbie here to Linux. Installed Red hat 9 to 1st HD. System has 2nd HD w/ 3 Fat32 partitions extended. My W2k OS HD sees these partitions, but RH9 does not. (I have two separate hard drives in removeable trays, one with W2k and the other for these experiments. I had previously did a hd install with Knoppix 3.2 and it saw the second HD no problem.) How do I see these partitions in order to mount them? Do I need to install components from the install CD's first? Partitions on second hard drive were created with Partition Magic. Any help would be vastly appreciated. I don't want to use Windows anymore, security, practices, etc...

What exactly do you mean by didn't see the second HD??? If you want to use it, you first need to mount it... Try these, mkdir /mnt/first mkdir /mnt/second mkdir /mnt/third mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/first mount -t vfat /dev/hdb2 /mnt/second mount -t vfat /dev/hdb3 /mnt/third If the mount commands work, then you may want to add them to your /etc/fstab so they would be mounted automatically each time RedHat Linux is up, /dev/hdb1 /mnt/first vfat defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/second vfat defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /mnt/third vfat defaults 1 1 taurus

Thanks for the reply Taurus I mean that when I used Knoppix, it put icons on the desk top for each partition, ie: hda1, hdb5, hdb6, etc. The RH install shows me only the "home" partition. I will try those commands later this evening and post back my results joey

If you want icons on your desktop, right-click > new > device and choose either hard disk, cdrom etc. You can also go to the KDE control centre > desktop > behaviour and select what devices are shown on the desktop wwhen either mounted or unmounted.

Thanks Taurus and 3Dave. Successfully mounted the drives and added to /etc/fstab. Working good. Added the Icons/"shortcuts" using KDE. As a long time Windoze 98 and then W2k user, I find Linux refreshingly intuitive. Particularly enjoy finding about and using commands like "switchdesk"