Recognizing a hard drive

[Hugh Esco]

Use fdisk from a root prompt to set the partitions and the file system
types for each.  Use mkfs2ext, I think it is, again as root, to build the
file systems.  I may have that second command wrong.  Its in the /sbin or
/usr/sbin directories of your linux installation.

-- Hugh

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, erik burggraaf wrote:

> Hi,  I've just put a new data drive in my toy linux box.  I know the drive is set up properly.  The jumpers are right, and everything, and I know the drive is functioning, because I can run it on it's own.
> How do I go about mounting it and formatting it to ext2 for linux use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik
>