Installation issues

[Ken Wolman]

I don't know if it was this list, but these issues drew a reply of 
"RYFM" and "Check the archives."  As far as I can determine, there isn't 
A manual, and I have no idea where in the archives to look, so I'm 
thrown back to asking basic installation questions.

I have a somewhat oldish system, a Dell Dimension with a 10GB hard drive 
installed, and no internal expansion capabilities.  I added a 40GB USB 
drive.  The main disk is broken into unequal partitions.  E: is for data 
only, C: has the OS (Win2K) and essential software.  To start Fedora, I 
partitioned the C: drive for about 200MB dedicated to /boot, just as I 
had done with earlier flavors of Redhat up to 8.0.  The USB drive I set 
up through Partition Magic as "unformatted."  Upon booting Fedora from 
the CD, the USB drive was not recognized.

I picked up that I have to mount the drive.  But how can I mount a drive 
when there's no system from which to mount it?  I KNOW this is an idiot 
question, but there is nothing I can find in the online documentation 
that tells me anything even close to the situation in which I find myself.

Any help will of course be appreciated.

KW
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Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538