Mounting a second HDD, Still....

[Ken Grunke]

mascarasnake wrote:


>A Big Ol' Nevermind here! Wah (expletive) Hoo!
>
>Here's what happened in case this may happen to others:
>A very simple oversight that came to me while ozoning with a quick game
>of mahjongg.
>
>I hadn't *actually* created a directory called "macos" in the /mnt
>directory. If this affliction does visit you, and you are certain that
>you have done and are doing everything right, make sure that you do
>this:	
>
>	# cd /mnt
>	# mkdir macos
>
> then you can merrily:
>
>	# mount -t hfs /dev/sda /mnt/macos
>
>And Oh Happy Day, there's the %@%^#$&$*$% Hard Drive you spent the last
>2 days trying to mount. I Think I'll put this up on one of those big,
>ugly, glaring yellow Knotes so I can see how mind-numbingly oversighted
>I can be.

A neat thing is that you can put the macos directory just about anywhere, not just in /mnt--
like your desktop:


# mount -t hfs /dev/sda6 /home/yourself/desktop/macos

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