[tulledulle]

OKay big problem.. the harddrive needs to be connect through an eSATA-150 1external +1 internal low porfile PCI adapter... SO i bought this.. the problem is.. it only has an windows driver.. so im lost here.. is there a way to get an linux driver? and if there is.. will this even work?.. i mean.. oh i dont know.. im so lost..HELP

[bigtomrodney]

Have you tried plugging it in? With Linux most drivers are built into the kernel.

[tulledulle]

Originally Posted by bigtomrodney

Have you tried plugging it in? With Linux most drivers are built into the kernel.

well im kinda worried.. can return it if i do this.. but im willing to give it a try.. do you think it would work? the problem.. is.. can i even install linux on the harddrive when it needs and windows driver to be functional?

[Jonathan183]

It needs a suitable driver to function, a lot of hardware support is built into the kernel as bigtomrodney said. I suggest you plug the drive in and see if Linux will detect it. The likely outcomes are either the drive will be detected by Linux and will function correctly or it will not be detected and no changes will be made to it.

[tulledulle]

Okay, I plugged in the drive and hardware adapter... worked like a charm.. i just removed the windows 200 gb harddrive.. and plugged the new one in.. whit a Fedora install dvd in the disktray.. installed and im writing from the fedora OS right now.. thanks for everything... !

I'm having trouble learning the commands.. LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell scripts., is saying like.. "try cd /usr/X11R6/bin and then pwd too see that you are in the next directory"... this does not work.

[Kristian@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/Kristian
[Kristian@localhost ~]$ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
bash: cd: /usr/X11R6/bin: No such file or directory
[Kristian@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/Kristian
[Kristian@localhost ~]$ ls
Desktop Documents Download Music Pictures Public Templates Videos
[Kristian@localhost ~]$ cd /usr/Download
bash: cd: /usr/Download: No such file or directory
[Kristian@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/Kristian

[techieMoe]

[Kristian@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/Kristian

So far so good. Remember, you're in /home/Kristian.

[Kristian@localhost ~]$ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
bash: cd: /usr/X11R6/bin: No such file or directory

You may not have that directory. Most Linux distributions these days use X.org rather than Xfree86, which is probably what was in use at the time the tutorial was written. Also, remember that Linux is case sensitive, so a directory called x11r6 is different than one called X11R6. If you know the starting letter of the directory you want you can let Linux auto-complete the name by pressing TAB twice.

[Kristian@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/Kristian
[Kristian@localhost ~]$ ls
Desktop  Documents  Download  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
[Kristian@localhost ~]$ cd /usr/Download
bash: cd: /usr/Download: No such file or directory
[Kristian@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/Kristian

Why are you putting /usr/ in front of the Download directory? When you do this, you're asking Linux to put you in the /usr/Download directory, not /home/Kristian/Download, which is what you want. All you need to do is say cd Download from inside your current directory.