On 06/09/2010 01:06 PM, Tom Poe wrote:
> Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> Best... response... ever...
>>
> My apologies, folks.  Sent the wrong message.  Found out the tribes sell
> retail price, and pocket the federal taxes in a deal with the
> state/feds.  The message I wanted to send:
>
> Well, made the move from northeast Iowa.  Now in striking range for
> install fests, etc.  All settled in Eden Valley.  Need to set up my Dell
> GX260 desktop to maximize my standalone DSL line with Internet access
> provided by regional telecom, Melrose Telephone Company.  Can someone
> point me to a set of linux commands to document what my computer is,
> now?  I want to check hardware setup.  I have two drives, an 80GB drive
> and a 160GB drive, but want to upgrade to Ubuntu10.4 and use both
> drives.  In other words, want to reformat both drives, and treat as
> one.  Any suggestions appreciated.

lshw and lspci might be useful for hardware info.

Raid and/or LVM can combine your drives into one -- there are many 
different ways to do this depending on what you're trying to achieve. Or 
you could simply set one drive as root (/) and mount the other as /home or 
something if you're just trying to make use of the space.

-Steve