New 320gig Sata HDD attached, access denied???

[Dangah]

Hi I installed Suse 10.1 the other day. So far its been of an up hill battle to get used to it, but im getting there. However I have a serious problem in that I can't find the install disks and I need my HDD up and running in 20min or Im a bit on the screwed side of things. Its 11.40am Australian EST. If any one can help me sort out my HDD I would be absalutly indebted to you.

THanks

Dangah

[Dangah]

The exact words are "Permision Denied". Thats all the info I got.

Thanks

[gogalthorp]

Tight schedual

We would need more info for anyone to try and help.

Is Linux running?

what are you trying to do exactly?

Access denied is normal because you are trying to access things that you as a user don't have rights to. Try as root.

[Dangah]

I have more time now. Hurahh!

Linux SuSE 10.1 is running quite well, other than the ruddy HDD.

Anyway, what I am trying to do is add a new HDD. It has stuff on it already and I used it with windows XP, but not as a windows drive. I forgot to attach it when I first installed SUSE and now that I have attached it I am having trouble getting it operate/Cooperate.

I looked around in YaST but couldn't find anything.

What should I do?

Thanks a lot guys.

Dangah

[devils casper]

hi Dangah !

you have to mount Partitions of External HD.
execute fdisk -l command and note down partition numbers ( /dev/sda1 or similar ).
create mount_point ( folder ) for each partition and mount it.

su -
fdisk -l
mkdir /media/ext_hd1
mount -t ntfs /dev/<partition_number> /media/ext_hd1
ls /media/ext_hd1

in case you couldn't mount partitions, post the output of 'fdisk -l' command here.





Casper

[Dangah]

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 36531 293435226 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 36532 38913 19133415 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 36532 37276 5984181 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 37277 38022 5992213+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 38023 38913 7156926 7 HPFS/NTFS

I don't know how to mount them to a folder exactly. How do I creat a the mount folder?

Thanks Casper im total lost here, this is my first venture into SuSE/linux

[gogalthorp]

Follow instructions devils_casper gave above.

[Amebaid]

the system ( linux ) simply doesn't support automatic reading for ntfs so yu must mount them first as casper said

but you may want to check this first ntfs support