Help mounting new HDD

[jzng89]

I recently installed Knoppix 5.1 on my old Pentium MMX 233Mhz, 128Mb RAM and 6Gb HDD. It works fine with a 400Mb linux-swap partition.

Everything is in perfect order. I want to install a new 20Gb HDD but it can't detect it at all, the jumpers are right and I had formatted the HDD to ext3 format. I plugged it in and tried mounting it but failed.

After that I used my IDE to USB converter to hook it up to the PC, it was detected but failed to mount with an error saying that the file system could not be determined or was not stated or something like that.

Any idea what's the prob? If possible can guide me through on installing a new HDD? I'm very new to Linux and this is my first distro installed.

[devils casper]

Hi jzng89,

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

plug in new HDD and execute this command in Terminal

su
fdisk -l

note down partition names of new HDD and mount those. OR post the output of fdisk -l command here.

[jzng89]

Thanks for the welcome, I hope to learn a lot about Linux here.

Anyway that did the trick nicely! Thanks so much.

[jzng89]

Sorry double posting.

Anyway, how do you set the system to automount my HDD on startup? My HDD dir is /media/hdb5 if it helps

[devils casper]

add entry of /dev/hdb5 in /etc/fstab file

su
nano /etc/fstab

add this code

/dev/hdb5   /media/hdb5   ext3  defaults 0  0

[jzng89]

Thanks, works perfectly