rose@galtee.cs.wisc.edu (By Any Other Name) (05/18/91)
Coherent Digest Vol. 91.2, No. 10 Fri May 17 14:11:50 CDT 1991 Today's Topics: hard drive prob Drives and partitions Re: hard drive prob ok Administrivia: The Coherent Digest is a forum for discussion of the MWC Coherent 3.x operating system. Send submissions to "coherent@cs.wisc.edu" and administrivia to "coherent-reqeust@cs.wisc.edu". Previous issues are archived for anonymous FTP access on piggy.ucsb.edu in the directory "pub/coherent/mail-list". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 May 91 1:22:37 WET DST From: hilander@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Marc Hiland) To: coherent Subject: hard drive prob > hi I am new to coherent > my question is.. >i have 2 hard drives on my 286 > both seagate 225's > i partitioned one to have coherent and dos > the other i did the same 1/2 for dos and 1/2 for coherent > problem is > i haven't uncompressed my man files because i had little room > so how would i go about mounting (terminology?) the 2nd partition > of my 2nd hard drive.. > the 2nd partition of my 1st hard drive is already /root > thanks! > > Marc > > hilander@gnu.ai.mit.edu > so nobody has any answers? my 2nd partition of my second drive is empty and i'm trying to get coherent to recognize it.. nobody at all knows how? hmmm ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 91 13:26:41 EDT From: Stephane Doucet <73207.1247@CompuServe.COM> To: <coherent> Subject: Drives and partitions Marc, Can't say that I know how either. I have a second hard drive that I want to add to my Coherent system...I don't foresee your problems since my system runs uniquely Coherent. Are your drives the same size? If so why not have one for Coherent and one for DOS? Or would that not let the DOS or Coherent partition boot? Dunno... As for answers...this list is slow... - -Stephane ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 91 15:37:10 From: dalek!bob@uunet.UU.NET (Bob Hemedinger) To: mwc!hilander%gnu.ai.mit.edu.mwc!coherent@cs.wisc.edu.mwcbbs!digest Subject: Re: hard drive prob >> >>> hi I am new to coherent >>> my question is.. >>>i have 2 hard drives on my 286 >>> both seagate 225's >>> i partitioned one to have coherent and dos >>> the other i did the same 1/2 for dos and 1/2 for coherent >>> problem is >>> i haven't uncompressed my man files because i had little room >>> so how would i go about mounting (terminology?) the 2nd partition >>> of my 2nd hard drive.. >>> the 2nd partition of my 1st hard drive is already /root >>> thanks! You mount a hard drive partition in th same manner as a floppy disk. You must mount the partition to an EMPTY directory. In your case, the 2nd partition on the second hard drive is named /dev/at1b, so you would use: mount /dev/at1b /empty_directory Anytime you reference the directory the partition was mounted to, you will be accessing the information on that partition. Before mounting the partition, be sure that you have used badscan and mkfs to scan the partition for bad blocks and make an empty filesystem on the partition if this was not done during your original installation. >>> hilander@gnu.ai.mit.edu >>so nobody has any answers? >> >>my 2nd partition of my second drive is empty >>and i'm trying to get coherent to recognize it.. >>nobody at all knows how? >>hmmm >> >>-Hal Snyder- >>Mark Williams Tech. Support (708)-291-6700 (voice) >>uunet!mwc!support (708)-291-6750 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 91 02:13:53 -0400 From: hilander@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Marc Hiland) To: coherent Subject: ok i fdisked my 2nd partition on my 2nd hard drive then i went to mount it.. oops i went to badscan it.. iti typed badscan at1b and it didn't seem to work i looked it up in the manuals and it didn't help so then i tried to mount it.. it typed in mount /dev/at1b hd2 and also /hd2 i tried and i even made a hd2 dir.. but it said... badly formed file system hmmm......... welp..maybe you gurus might know what i did wrong? also doesn't du tell me how much space i have left? -- Marc ------------------------------ End of Coherent Digest Vol. 91.2, No. 10 ****************************************