Fresh install on multiple drives

[donnajennings]

I want to replace my winxp setup on my home server.
PClinuxOS2010 installs from the live cd very well (the quickest and easiest I have ever seen) and all hardware is listed.

The boot drive is a pair of maxtor sata 80gb in a raid 1 This is all OK  (I think- I'm typing this ok with it..... ).

My problem is the other two drives.These are two Samsung 1tb sata disks.
These will only store the data.
Ive tried raid-ing them, but for the moment have given up due to "I cant recognise " error messages.

I now would settle for two separate drives.
They need to be NTFS and I would like them as one full volume each.

I have used gparted and the configuration control centre to format them (NTFS as all the clients are windows)
I cannot mount them.
I have googled and tried  "mount -t ntfs/dev/sdc1/mnt"  in root.
Nothing happens - no error message and no drives appear .
I searched  NTFS into the package manager and downloaded everything I could without any change.
Any ideas would be very welcome but please keep it Very simple (its taken me  3 weeks to get this far!)

[pags]

I want to replace my winxp setup on my home server.
PClinuxOS2010 installs from the live cd very well (the quickest and easiest I have ever seen) and all hardware is listed.

The boot drive is a pair of maxtor sata 80gb in a raid 1 This is all OK  (I think- I'm typing this ok with it..... ).

My problem is the other two drives.These are two Samsung 1tb sata disks.
These will only store the data.
Ive tried raid-ing them, but for the moment have given up due to "I cant recognise " error messages.

I now would settle for two separate drives.
They need to be NTFS and I would like them as one full volume each.

I have used gparted and the configuration control centre to format them (NTFS as all the clients are windows)
I cannot mount them.
I have googled and tried  "mount -t ntfs/dev/sdc1/mnt"  in root.
Nothing happens - no error message and no drives appear .
I searched  NTFS into the package manager and downloaded everything I could without any change.
Any ideas would be very welcome but please keep it Very simple (its taken me  3 weeks to get this far!)

You say you want NTFS, because all the clients are Windows...but this is a home server.

If you'll be sharing these drives (through Samba -- SMB/CIFS), then it would be best to use a journalling fs such as ext3...the format will not matter to the client PCs when accessed as share through the network, as the server does the actual "reading" and "writing" of the disks, and "serves" the content back and forth on the client's behalf (hence the "File Server" concept).  Using a native fs will allow you to implement better security, by having access to the filesystem access bits that the server OS understands, and can map to the relevant users...

BTW, your mount command:

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mount -t ntfs/dev/sdc1/mntis missing the relevant white space to delimit the various parts of the command.  It should be:

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mount    -t    ntfs    /dev/sdc1    /mntI've put four spaces in each spot where only one is required, to help illustrate where the spaces belong.

Anyway, I would recommend that you use PCC (PCLinuxOS Control Center) to partition, format and mount your local TB disks (the blue/black circle the the wrench and screwdriver "X" in it).  Use a native filesystem, and then setup the sharing.