Reconising Hard Drive and Pen Drive

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Reconising Hard Drive and Pen Drive
started by: MikeMiner

Posted by MikeMiner on Nov. 06 2005,16:07

How can i get DSL (Booting of LiveCD), to reconise my hard drive and my pendrive,so i can access files off them?

Cheers
Mike

Posted by mgmont on Nov. 07 2005,03:08

Mike, you need to mount the drives before they can be recognized. The easiest way is to use the panel on the right of your screen. About half way down you will see a small picture of a drive with a name above it that may say floppy or cdrom. Directly below are two arrow points. by clicking on the arrows you will cycle through the different drives available. The name above the picture of the drive will change as you step through. Your hard drive will appear as hda1 and if it has more than one partition, you will see the partitions as hda2, hda3 and so on. The USB device wlll appear as sda1. To mount the desired device, make sure you have selected it with the arrow points then move your mouse pointer over to the small box just to the left of the arrow points and left click on the box. When the device is mounted, the black line in the middle of the box will turn green. This indicates that the drive is mounted. At this point you should be able to access files on the drive you just mounted. If you want to unmount the drive just click on the box to the left of the arrow point and when it turns black it is unmounted.

Another way if you know the linux name of the partition or drive that you want to mount is to open a terminal screen and type sudo su which will put you in super user mode. Then you can type the command: mount /dev/sda1 which will mount the usb drive if it is plugged in. You can substitute the name of any other device in place of sda1 to mount that device.

To unmount a drive you type: umount /dev/[drive name].

I hope this makes helps.

Posted by Klient on Nov. 08 2005,11:48

Hmmm - doing this

Would this allow me to do fdisk to find and install DSL onto my un-partioned space on the HDD?

Posted by mgmont on Nov. 09 2005,19:09

Klient, I normally make sure that the device that I want to partition is connected before I boot up. Then I open a terminal window as su and use cfdisk. For instance, if I want to partition the hard disk, I would type: cfdisk /dev/hda

This would show all the space available on the hard drive and any partitions already set up. It will allow you to create or delete partitions with the available space. If you want to work on a usb device, you would type: cfdisk /dev/sda

Once the partitions are created and formatted, they will appear in the control center as I described in my previous post after you reboot.

If you created a partition of the right size and formatted it properly, you should be able to install DSL to your hard drive with no problem.

Posted by MikeMiner on Nov. 11 2005,10:52

So with this,it would be possible to download .dsl files onto my hard drive,boot linux and then use the files?

Posted by mgmont on Nov. 12 2005,04:18

Mike,you wrote

"So with this,it would be possible to download .dsl files onto my hard drive,boot linux and then use the files"

I would think you would already be booted up in linux before you download the files. Yes you can use the files.

Posted by MikeMiner on Nov. 12 2005,09:52

Hmm,I cant access files of it using elmFM (SP?),Is there a guide for it somewhere?