[newbie] How do I get to my Win drives?
I have just installed Mandrake and have not figured out how to view my fat32 formatted drives. I would like to have a desktop link like the cdrom has if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5788323
Re: [newbie] How do I get to my Win drives?
Robert Sheskin wrote: I have just installed Mandrake and have not figured out how to view my fat32 formatted drives. I would like to have a desktop link like the cdrom has if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 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! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do I get to my Win drives?
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:16:55 -0500, Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. It worked for me but my /dev/hda1 wasn't listed in the /etc/fstab so I added it. That also explains way it never loaded with mount -t vfat. (:-) Here is what my fstab looks like. /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults1 1 /dev/hda1 /Win98C vfat defaults0 0 /dev/hdc1 /Win98D vfat defaults0 0 /dev/hda6 swapswap defaults0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floopy auto sync,users,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto users,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,unhide,ro 0 0 none/proc proc defaults 0 0 Note the mount name show as the same name that were given during installation. HTH Regards, Qman...
Re: [newbie] How do I get to my Win drives?
Steve Philp wrote: 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shouldn't you be able to use linuxconf to setup mounts/users etc. in Mandrake 5.3 since it is 100% compatible with RH 5.2? Mandrake is supposed to be all of RH 5.2 plus add-ons done by MandrakeSoft, correct? I currently have RH 5.2 (and I've just ordered Mandrake PowerPack) and find linuxconf very straight forward to do what you're trying to do.
Re: [newbie] How do I get to my Win drives?
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! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5788323
Re: [newbie] How do I get to my Win drives?
Robert Sheskin wrote: 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! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Well, you missed part of the instructions, I guess. The paragraph that starts "Second," said to create a mount point for it. I see from another message that you've gotten it all setup so I won't worry about going through the rest of it. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
