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Posted: Dec. 08 2005,21:08 QUOTE
DSL newb - thanks for any help in advance.

I have a user that hosed his machine so I'm booting to DSL to copy his hard drives to the network, but I can't get them mounted to do so.  He has an extra hard drive that fits into the CD bay, so I'm running from a USB drive.   Whenever I try to mount I get "mount: special device hda1 does not exist"

How can I figure out the device name so I know what to boot?  Specifically, I need the device name of the extra drive.

Thanks.
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Posted: Dec. 08 2005,22:28 QUOTE
Wow - how about I use the nice mount toolbar right there on the side of the screen.  Doesn't explain why it wouldn't work via the command line, but whatever.
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Posted: Dec. 09 2005,02:33 QUOTE
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Posted: Dec. 09 2005,21:50 QUOTE
Well, that worked great for copying the stuff to the network, but now I need to format the drive, but it's only mounted as ro, of course.  Sooo... how can I mount it as rw?

Please? :)
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