danboy712 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Hi there, I've been learning linux (set up a machine just for this) my machine contains 2HDs both 40gb on the fist disk I have a 50/50 split dual boot ubuntu/xp which is working fine. On my second disk I am trying to install backtrack 3 final and here's where the probs started I posted the thread below on the support forum , the thread should outline the prob though: [quote}Hi everyone, I'm trying to install BT3 and I'm having some probs. I should say 1st off I know my way around Linux but there are some areas where I'm not up to speed yet. I am trying to install BT3 on a second Hard Drive on a spare machine. I've been looking at a tutorial on this forum which on the face of it looks quite good. I set up the HD partitions using fdisk the p command now returns: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 1217 9775521 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 1218 1591 3004155 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb3 1592 4753 25398765 83 Linux To the best of my semi-noob knowledge this should work, feel free to tell me if not. My next step was: mkdir /mnt/backtrack Appeared to work ok but next came the prob: mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/backtrack/ returns: mount: No such file or directory I have CD'd and got to the point where I can view the /mnt/backtrack/ directory using ls so i don't understand the problem. Can anyone give advice? Many Thx This is being done from the BT OS running as a live cd I also cannot access the 2nd HD (hdb) from ubuntu for eg: root> fdisk /dev/hdb returns: Unable to open /dev/hdb so no linux OS seems to get access to it.In XP the disk manager can see the partitions exist although obviously does not recognize the format. The etc/fstab file doesn't list them at all in UBUNTU. I was thinking this is a permissions issue, but even root doesn't get access. The only other thing I can add is that the HD does show up on ubuntu's desktop with the name "new volume". This is probably a noob post with an obvious answer but I feel like I've been banging my head against a wall since yesterday. Any advice would be brilliant (got no feed back from the support forum). Many thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Its likely the disk isn't at /dev/hdb. Whats the output of.... # ls /dev ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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