It is not recognizing the data on the other drive. It only sees the swap space. It is asking for the systemfile type.
Here is the output. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tester# mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) tester# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp4sol /dev/hdb1 looks like swapspace - not mounted mount: you must specify the filesystem type -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tester:# cfdisk /dev/hdb <--- this gives me a fatal error ---> FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder. Is it possible that Debian will not read the partitions? Thanks for the help. I am sending this back to the group also. Kelly > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Using graphical environment > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, February 13, 2007 4:11 pm > To: Kelly D Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian users > <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > > Kelly D Kennedy wrote: > > Kent you are the greatest. Worked like a charm. All updates are over > > the net now. > > > > I have another question I thought I would bounce off you if you do not > > mind. The server I am running this test environment on is an HP > > Proliant DL140. Dual Xeon 2.8 4 gig memory. We have 7 of these in > > total. This is a test machine. We currently use Solaris 9 and have > > grown ever more frustrated with it. What we did was swapped the > > (old)boot drive to a slave position and put in a new hard drive for > > this testing. My question is can I access the old data on the old > > drive with this system? It would be much easier to copy directly. > > > > (You might get more informed answers from the list rather than from me, > thus I'm routing this back to the list. Having said that ...) > > You can almost certainly do what you're wanting to do. > > You don't mention if your drives are IDE, SCSI, SATA, or what, so the > first thing to do is to see how your drive is being addressed. If you'll > run the "mount" command (or do one of three or four other methods), > you'll see where your current system is mounted; it'll look something > like this: > > /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) > proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) > /dev/hda5 on /usr type ext3 (rw) > /dev/hda6 on /var type ext3 (rw) > /dev/hda7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec) > /dev/hda8 on /home type ext3 (rw) > /dev/hda9 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw) > binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > > According to this output, my IDE hard drive is being addressed as > "/dev/hda" (with the partition numbers appended for each mounted partition). > > A SCSI drive is more likely to be addressed as "/dev/sda". (I'm > unfamiliar with SATA drives or other more esoteric configurations, so > I'm not sure how they're addressed.) > > Your slave drive will be addressed similarly. On a typical IDE system, > there are a maximum of four drives available, listed as hda, hdb, hdc, > and hdd. hda and hdb are master and slave on the primary IDE port, > whereas hdc and hdd are master and slave on the secondary IDE port. > > So all you need to do is mount the proper drive. > > You can create a "mount point" (a directory name where the mounted slave > drive will show up); something like: > > mkdir -p /mnt/Slowaris > or > mkdir /home/kelly/rickety_old_Sun_OS > > (You can see I don't much care for Solaris, either.) > > Then mount the slave drive with a command like: > > mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/Slowaris > > The "hdb3" portion will depend on how your drive is addressed by the > system, and by which partition you want to mount. You can probably use > "cfdisk /dev/hdb" to see the partitioning schemes on the hdb drive > (there are other methods as well). > > Now you can access the files on the drive simply by > copying/moving/listing/etc the files in /mnt/Slowaris. > > This is only a temporary mounting, which will remain mounted until the > next reboot (or manual unmount, or perhaps init level change, etc). If > you want it to be mounted at each boot, you'll have to add a line in > /etc/fstab. > > Feel free to ask for clarifications, etc. > > -- > Kent West > http://kentwest.blogspot.com <http://kentwest.blogspot.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
