Installing a new hard drive

[Eamonn Sullivan]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I'm almost there, but have run
into a few problems.

I ended up using qtparted to create the partition and format it with
ext3. The result is that this works fine:

mount /dev/sda1 /home/backup

However, it doesn't work in fstab. The message I get at boot is 

mount special device /dev/sda1 doesn't exist
 
Once the system is booted, I can mount it manually without problems.
I'm assuming that's because the device node hasn't been created yet?

 My fstab looks like this (hda* is an IDE drive -- the original one): 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda2       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda3       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sda1       /home/backup    ext3    defaults        0       0

If I follow the directions on the fstab man page, I should make that
last column (pass) a 2, but doing that just causes the boot process to
halt, saying an ext2 (?) file system can't be found on the device and
the filesystem can't be repaired... I suspect that has to do with the
previous message (that the device can't be found). I have to type
Ctrl-D to continue the booting process. After which, I can mount
manually.

Any ideas? I may have opened myself a can of worms by trying to mix
ide and serial ATA...