I installed OpenSUSE 11. I have 3 IDE PATA hard drives, 1 internal floppy drive and 1 USB floppy drive. SUSE only sees the hard drive it’s installed on and the internal floppy drive. How do I get SUSE to see the other hard drives and USB floppy drive? Do I have to edit the fstab file by hand? Will a future version of SUSE set up drives automatically like Mandriva does? Thanks for any help.
In the KDE 3.x, KDE Control Center in System Administration, there’s a tool called Disk & Filesystems. I used that in distros with KDE 3.x to setup the hard drives if the distro didn’t automatically set up the drives it’s self. I don’t see Disk & Filesystems in KDE 4.
Use the partitioning tool in yast to add a mount point for each drive.
Edit: this will work for the hard drives (assuming when you run the command fdisk -l you can see them listed) but not the USB floppy. Can’t help you with that one I’m afraid.
It is not clear for me what you mean by ‘not seeing drives’. Are they not seen at all, or are they simply not mounted?
You can check if they are ‘seen’ by the system with (as root):
fdisk -l
This will present you not only with the disks (drives as you call them), but also show their partitions (if there are any). Post the output of fdisk -l if you need help with the interpretation.
When fdisk shows the partitions, and you know what they are for, you can then try to mount them by either editing /etc/fstab, but better to use YaST > System > Partitioner as spooforbrains allready indicated. When you need help using this, please post.