I'm trying to rehabilitate an ancient PC (1999 IBM Aptiva) which somebody gave me. It has three IDE hard-drives, and I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on the first one. I just assumed that the install process would mount all three, but it didn't, and I can't work out how to mount the other two manually. I'm very new to Linux, by the way.
Fdisk says this:
Code:
[11:40:30 lenb ~]> sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for lenb:
Disk /dev/sda: 20.4 GB, 20491075584 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe1638362
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2400 19277968+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2401 2491 730957+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2401 2491 730926 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 13.0 GB, 13030907904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1584 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e5499
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1584 12723448+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Disk /dev/sdc: 13.8 GB, 13858725888 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1684 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a36f2
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 1684 13526698+ 8e Linux LVM
[11:40:56 lenb ~]>
I know there's data on sdb which should be kept, but sdc is supposed to be empty. There was a version of Linux on this machine long ago and far away. Probably RedHat. And OS2/Warp (RIP), I think. But now it will be 100% Linux.
I've looked in the Pocket Guide and the man pages, but I can't figure it out. Here's what I've tried so far, with no success: sudo mount -t fat32 /dev/sdb1 /home/lenb/hdd2 ro but it just lists some command details and does nothing. The directory hdd2 does exist.
I've tried fat32, w95 fat32, and vfat, but no luck. An error message might have helped, but there are none. What next?
[It might be of interest to say that I've tried installing three other distros on this machine without any success at all: PCLinuxOS, SimplyMEPIS, and Mandriva. If Ubuntu hadn't worked OpenSUSE was next in the queue, and then Xandros. But Ubuntu seems fine so far.]
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