How do you set up a second HDD

[jacatone]

I installed a second HDD on an old Compaq Presario 5000. I configured the Disk Management to partition and recognize it in XP Pro. How is it done in Kubuntu? Thanks.

[Qqmike]

Re: How do you set up a second HDD

Easy.

Use GParted Live CD to partition and format the HDD.

Then, look into the subject of mounting:

Mounting your filesystems
Each partition on your hard drive is also a “filesystem.” To access a filesystem when you are in K/Ubuntu, the filesystem must first be ”mounted”; that is, attached to your operating system directories in some way.
There are two ways to mount a filesystem:

1 Manually mount it (even from a Live CD), a temporary method.
And,
2 Mount the filesystem automatically each time you boot into your operating system. This is a more permanent method. This is done by editing (as root) your filesystem table (the file /etc/fstab) in K/Ubuntu, to include an entry for the filesystem you wish to be automatically mounted.

You will find all this explained, step by step, in the following standard, favorite Linux references:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p10.htm

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/mounting.html

GParted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
GParted how-to: http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted

[Rog131]

Re: How do you set up a second HDD

Here are some examples:

IDE monsters under my bed!
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3085982.0

If anybody could give me instructions on adding extra IDE drives

New Hard Drive
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3086856.0

I just installed a new 500gb SATA for media.