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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Hard Disk Post 77053 by locustfurnace on Sunday 3rd of July 2005 03:50:48 PM
Old 07-03-2005
You'll need to add more information to your post.
Once you add the hard drive to the machine, you will need to format it.
If you plan to use the hard drive under MS Windows, then you will need to format it with either FAT32 or NTFS.
If you plan to use it under GNU/Linux, then there are many filesystems you can format the drive to, (ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS), this is why you need to specify what you plan to use the hard drive for.

If you use it under MS Windows, once you format the drive, it should be ready to be used under the system.
If using the Hard drive under GNU/Linux, then after you format it, you'll need to make some changes to the /etc/fstab, to mount the drive during boot time.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

profile-manager

PROFILE-MANAGER(1)					      General Commands Manual						PROFILE-MANAGER(1)

NAME

       profile-manager - starts the gui for configuring the metadata used by desktop-profiles

SYNOPSIS

       profile-manager

DESCRIPTION

       The  desktop profiles package needs metadata about the available profiles in order to decide when to activate which profiles. This metadata
       is contained in the .listing files placed in the /etc/desktop-profiles directory. This convenience script will start a graphical  interface
       for configuring that metadata.

       The gui is a kommander script, so you need to have the kommander package installed for the gui to work (the script will check if the neces-
       sary prerequisites are present, and tell you what's missing if necessary).

OPTIONS

       There are no options

FILES

       /etc/desktop-profiles/*.listing - Files containing the metadata about installed profiles

BUGS

       The gui currently barks at profile metadata containing a single quote in the description.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Bart Cornelis <cobaco@skolelinux.no>.

SEE ALSO

       desktop-profiles(7), list-desktop-profiles(1), update-profile-cache(1)

desktop-profiles						   May 07, 2005 						PROFILE-MANAGER(1)
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