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Mynaardt
Hi again, All!
I have a desktop I got from my Mum’s estate; it’s about 3-4 years old.
A custom built sort of machine from her local computer store sort of thing.I had it at home merrily for about a year on Linux Mint.
So, I tried their new fangled update thingy to update the whole OS.
That was a bust! Off to my local computer store and I found out that
the problem was that there were TWO, not one drives in the computer.
Needless to say I messed things up trying to update the OS on the wrong
drive.So, anyway, after paying to have those two drives cleared out, I have
installed antiX 22 on it. Seems to be working okay. And I formatted
the extra drive with GParted.So far so good …
Except … I can’t figure out how to mount or
access that extra drive. All I can see is that it’s showing up as
/def/sdb1.I couldn’t find something on mounting internal drives on the forums
here. So, if someone could tell me how to go about that, it would
be much appreciated.Thanks ever so much in advance (blah, blah, blah, etc, etc)
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punranger
Quick reply: Use zzzfm instead of Rox. I suggest doing that permanently by using the Desktop menu item. Personally I prefer zzzfm with IceWM. It’s easy to load internal drives in zzzfm.
antiX linux: The best way to revive an old computer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCTaUAP6sSg
Robin
You can try using zzzFM left side drives menu for this:
Check from the Menu „Devices” the entry „Show devices”
Check from the Menu „Devices” → „Settings” → „Show” the entry „Internal drives”Then you can simply click on the device in the new left side area and it should mount.
Strange enough it is not mounted automatically at startup. In a Live system I’d suggest adding the boot option mount=all, but you are on an installed system…
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
punranger
Strange enough it is not mounted automatically at startup. In a Live system I’d suggest adding the boot option mount=all, but you are on an installed system…
There’s a workaround for that which involved modifying a config file. The issue was raised here a year or two ago.
antiX linux: The best way to revive an old computer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCTaUAP6sSg
RJP
Some reason automount does not work in my mini-laptop which has antiX 23 beta, so I use Pmount-GUI for mounting external devices.
Xunzi_23
please check media folder, your drive is probably to be found there.
you can after ensuring the drive is formatted and partitioned correctly
make an entry in etc/fstab. So many howtos for that available so pls excuse none here.During install you had the option custom, you could have added the drive there,
again better if previously prepared.
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