On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:16:55 -0500, Robert Sheskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Philp wrote:
>
> > First, make sure that the Windows partition is listed in /etc/fstab. I
> > believe Mandrake does this by default.
> >
> > Second, in KDE, right-click on the desktop. Select New->Filesystem
> > Device. Give it a name (keep the .kdelnk part at the end) that will
> > show up on the desktop. Click OK.
> >
> > Third, right-click on the icon that is created, select Properties.
> > Select the Device tab. Into the top entry box, enter the partition name
> > of the Windows partition (/dev/hda1, for example). You may want to
> > change the icons (at the bottom) since the default ones are pretty
> > meaningless.
> >
> > Finally, double-click on the desktop icon and it should auto-magically
> > mount the partition and open a file manager window for you. To unmount
> > the partition, simply right-click on the icon and select Unmount.
> >
> > That's it!
> >
> > --
> > Steve Philp
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I tried all of the above to no avail. My first drive (Windows boot) is
> fat32 but in the /etc/fstab file the drive is listed as follows:
> /dev/hda / vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
> I would think that there would be a distinction between fat16 and fat32.
> When clicking on the created icon I get :
> Could not mount
> mount: /dev/hda already mounted or /busy
> mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdb5 is already mounted on/
> Again thanks for the help.
>
It worked for me but my /dev/hda1 wasn't listed in the /etc/fstab so I
added it. That also explains way it never loaded with mount -t vfat.
(:-)
Here is what my fstab looks like.
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /Win98C vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /Win98D vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floopy auto sync,users,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto users,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,unhide,ro 0 0
none/proc proc defaults 0 0
Note the mount name show as the same name that were given during installation.
HTH
Regards,
Qman...
