Steve Philp wrote:
> Robert Sheskin 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!
> > >
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> > > Steve Philp
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> >
> > 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.
>
> Well, there are a couple problems here. First, I don't know if you
> hand-typed the /etc/fstab info into this message, but you really don't
> want the whole drive listed as the partition. You'll probably need a
> number after that hda (something like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc).
>
> Second, you don't want to mount your windows drive as the root (/). You
> need to create a mountpoint for it (I use /mnt/windows) and change the
> "/" to "/mnt/windows".
>
> The incorrect mountpoint is causing the second mount error.
>
> So, edit /etc/fstab and clean up the definitions and all should be fine.
>
> --
> Steve Philp
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I made the suggested changes and it changed the error message to mount: mount
point /mnt/windows does not exist. I also have a directory named 1 on the
drive, I tried pointing there and got the same result.
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Robert Sheskin
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