You can solve your problem by adding a removable storage device, such as a rewritable CD drive, a Zip drive or an external hard disk.

so I've messed with linux for a while now, have had several installs over the years of slackware 3.x and redhat 4.x now at RH 7.2 on my file serverbut its always been single-hard drive ...

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