Scott,
As far as I know, there is no way to access an NTFS partition if it is
on the same box as your Linux distro. The only way to access this drive
would be to have it on another computer, and share it out, assigning
appropriate share permissions (which MS feels is all to everyone by
default). Good luck. I am a newbie to this too and enjoy Mandrake.
Have a good one.
- Robert Dempsey
Scott Felton wrote:
> I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months
> back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166)
>
> Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I
> have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first
> that has my interest for more than a day or two.
>
> I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer.
> How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it
> to look at from here in Linux?
>
> I created a "/windows" directory (as root) and tried.........
>
> [root@whitetrash scott]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /windows
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> (gee, I still remember how to cut and paste in Linux :)
>
> AFAIK Mandrake is mounting 3 partitions for Linux on hdb (at least when I
> installed it, I defined 3). I *THINK* lilo is installed on /dev/hda (and not
> in MBR). Should I be able to mount my Windows NTFS?
>
> The Windows HD actually has nothing on it but Windows and I will probably
> ditch it when I settle on a final distro of Linux, but now that I can't mount
> it, I'm curious what my problem might be? I've installed Windows several
> times (I keep wiping it out during Linux install goofs:) and it SAYS it's
> using NTFS during the install. Looking at the man page for "mount" I think I
> have the syntax correct and I found nothing in this lists FAQ (although I'm
> not very good at searching it). TIA...
>
>
>
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