I would rather stay away from fat32 file format. Read-only is acceptable for me. I can just save it in Linux and when I boot back into Windoze I can grab the files I need.
Thanks for the feedback. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Scroll mouse, Windows XP mounts, Fonts, & Geforce 3 On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 4:00 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > -=Eric=- wrote: > >Ok, I'm new to the list so please take it easy on me. :-) > > > >I have a few questions for the list please: > > > >1. How can I get my scroll mouse to work? I'm using KDE as my windows > >manager. > > > >2. I would like to have my Windows XP partitions mounted when starting > >KDE. I would love to have a simple icon (two actually, for my 2 XP > >partitions) on my desktop so I can easily get to my files. > > Add a new line to /etc/fstab > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0 > but change the /dev/hda1 to suit your partition table for windows, > in terminal, > mount -a > > in terminal create, > mkdir /mnt/windows > > on desktop, > rightmouseclick down to create cdrom device, alter lable to suit, > in properties point to windblows partition. > > done. This is set to read-only, as writing to ntfs is dodgy indeed. A fat32 partition for data is the recommended work-around Anne ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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