On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:26 -0700, david c cooke wrote:
Have existing HDD with old Fedora operating system
that I made USB external for data backups.
If I have it on at boot time with the new FC5 machine,
it can't handle and hangs the process. I can't see it
after boot.
Don't have it on at boot time.
Instead, boot, then attach the USB drive.
Use fdisk to repartiton it so you eliminate the _probably_ conflicting
labels.
Finally, use mke2fs for each of the new partitions and you will be ready
to use it.
Can I make an entry to /etc/fstab, like hdb or hdb2, to get the drive
in
rw mode? Probably format then partition the beast before installing a
filing system, whatever type you think is best suited?
The usb drive will show up as sda, not hda
Thanks,
David