** Reply to message from "Adam Willcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 23 Feb
2001 09:35:30 -0500
I've fallen behind in reading all these e-mails, so bear with me if I repeat
something. There are two aspects of using NTFS and other partitions systems:
boot and read.
To connect to an NTFS partition (you are using Mandrake, if I recall): I'm
doing this from memory, so work around the misses....
Find and click on "HardDrak"
It will show a cartoon of your hard disk partitions. Click on each partition
to show what it contains. It should show NTFS blah-blah-blah for at least one
(depending on how many partitions you have). Wherever NTFS is located, find the
following parameter: /dev/hda# (e.g., /dev/hda4) and note the number.
Close HardDrak
To configure lilo:
Open the "configure" icon on your desktop. Click on the box that implies
"boot" (I don't recall its name). Find and click "add" -- at this point you
need to type in the /dev/hda# that you found above, and a name that lilo will
see.
To configure read access:
Create a folder/directory where you want to see your NTFS files
Click on config icon on your desktop (I don't have it in front of me right now)
Open filesystems
Click "add" or "mount" (I think it's "add")
A window will show up with three sub-windows. The two relevant ones:
Top window -- type in (pull-down won't find it) /dev/hda# (where # is the
number 1-8, where your NTFS partition is -- see first instruction).
Second window, pull-down menu shows eligible partition formats, one of them
should be NTFS. Click on that
Bottom window, type in the mount point (e.g., /home/myname/ntfs -- or whatever
the full pathname is to your folder that you created above).
Save and exit the windows.
Your NTFS files should now be visible at your mount point. They are probably
Read-Only. I understand that the Linux Kernel 2.4.x will allow Read/Write
access, but the 2.2.x does not.
Let me know if this worked for you. - Andy
