gregor herrmann wrote:

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>Whatever you like, just make sure the mountpoints exist.
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I'm not sure I know how to create mount points. Right now, the /mnt
directory in Debian is empty whereas the /media directory has two kinds
of subdirectories in it, one set that are real directories (e.g.
floppy0, cdrom0, usb0, etc.) and another set (e.g. floppy, cdrom, usb)
that merely point to the appropriate members of the first set. All of
these directories are empty (at least when I'm looking at them from
another Linux OS in another partition, as I do now).

To create these mount points would it suffice for me to boot into Debian
and then open a console as root and enter

# mkdir /mnt/hda1
# mkdir /mnt/hda2
# mkdir /mnt/hdb1

etc. etc.?