quoting Curt Tresenriter; Sunday 06 July 2003 02:48 pm: <whack>
> > Also; if the Windows drive (C:) is hda1 why did you add it as hda8? If > > you want to read the contents as a user instead of root it may help to > > add user in the fstab too. > > Not really on that BOOM! thing, but I did want to get your attention. <g> > > =-o I'm listening! > I was confusing the /mnt/win partition with the actual C: > Got it all straight now. > Thanks, > Curt :-) Welcome. But you did catch it yourself before I posted anything. (-: <d'uh mode> I've noticed that a lot of Windows refugees, and quite a number of those that are still dual booting Windows, have trouble with a logical drive naming convention as opposed to what they're used to. Repeat after me: Windows is stupid! The first hard disk drive (HDD) or partition on that drive is always called "C:." The second HDD, or the first partition on the second HDD is always called "D:." The second, third and subsequent partitions or drives are called "D:", "E:", "F:" and so on and live on the first drive. GNU/Linux uses Unix style naming. The first drive is hard drive a (hda), the second hdb, the third hdc, and so on. Partitions are numbered on individual drives; i.e.: hda1, hda2....hdb1, hdb2... and so on. Further partition naming in distributions such as Mandrake are based on their usage. Such as / for root, var for (system) variable, usr for user variable.....guess what /home and /swap are for? <g> Which makes more sense to *you?* Sorry for the "Well D'UH!" posts everyone. </d'uh mode> Regards; Charlie -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 15:41:06 up 18 days, 20:58, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.08 Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. -- Jimmy Cannon
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