Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
On Friday 20 September 2002 08:09 pm, you wrote: Many people suggested a FAT32 common area to read/write files between Linux and WindowsXP but I can't do that here. The Windows disk that came with my machine will only install using NTFS and it takes the entire 40g hard drive for itself with no consideration for what may already be on the disk. I haven't found a (free) tool that will let me claim back some of that space to use as anything other than NTFS. I will have the last laugh when I put my final chosen Linux dist on here using both 40g disks and use those Windows CDs for coasters! (margarittas anyone? :) Scott: I've _heard_ of an alternative to Partition Magic (either freeware or relatively inexpensive shareware) that does the same things as PM. I _believe_ it's called Ranish Partition Manager. That would be one way of setting up a FAT32 common data area. (Weasel words underlined because I've never used it.. Hell, I'm not even sure if I've got the name spelled correctly.) Be cautious, but it might be worth a Google. -- cmg Thanks for that info Carroll. It didn't look like the Ranish Partition Manager was going to work for me on NTFS but I did start searching and found a shareware product (BootitNG) that *did* let me resize my WinXP NTFS volume, add a Fat32 volume to act as a go-between area. It is also a boot manager so I can dual boot WinXP or Mandrake. Now Windows has the size partition it deserves.4g out of 80 :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:55 pm, Scott Felton wrote: Thanks for that info Carroll. It didn't look like the Ranish Partition Manager was going to work for me on NTFS but I did start searching and found a shareware product (BootitNG) that *did* let me resize my WinXP NTFS volume, add a Fat32 volume to act as a go-between area. It is also a boot manager so I can dual boot WinXP or Mandrake. Now Windows has the size partition it deserves.4g out of 80 :) Scott: Glad to be of help. Anything to whittle away at Bill's empire. 76 gb here, 76 gb there, it all adds up. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 08:32, Scott Felton wrote: On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:20 pm, you wrote: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows Mandrake puts mount points in /mnt, so it may be /mnt/windows. I use /mnt/winnt. /dev/hda is the disk, /dev/hda1 is a partition. you want to mount a partition. BTW, it WILL be read-only. Read-write access is experimental, don't use it. Thanks for the above Michael. With your advice and adive from many others on the list I am able to mount my NTFS partition. I have added it to fstab and it works fine. I can only access it when logged in as root though. (I'll tackle that next) Many people suggested a FAT32 common area to read/write files between Linux and WindowsXP but I can't do that here. The Windows disk that came with my machine will only install using NTFS and it takes the entire 40g hard drive for itself with no consideration for what may already be on the disk. I haven't found a (free) tool that will let me claim back some of that space to use as anything other than NTFS. I will have the last laugh when I put my final chosen Linux dist on here using both 40g disks and use those Windows CDs for coasters! (margarittas anyone? :) During the Linux install on your second disk you could set aside a small fat32 partition as hdb1. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:20 pm, you wrote: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows Mandrake puts mount points in /mnt, so it may be /mnt/windows. I use /mnt/winnt. /dev/hda is the disk, /dev/hda1 is a partition. you want to mount a partition. BTW, it WILL be read-only. Read-write access is experimental, don't use it. Thanks for the above Michael. With your advice and adive from many others on the list I am able to mount my NTFS partition. I have added it to fstab and it works fine. I can only access it when logged in as root though. (I'll tackle that next) Many people suggested a FAT32 common area to read/write files between Linux and WindowsXP but I can't do that here. The Windows disk that came with my machine will only install using NTFS and it takes the entire 40g hard drive for itself with no consideration for what may already be on the disk. I haven't found a (free) tool that will let me claim back some of that space to use as anything other than NTFS. I will have the last laugh when I put my final chosen Linux dist on here using both 40g disks and use those Windows CDs for coasters! (margarittas anyone? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
On Friday 20 September 2002 04:32 pm, Scott Felton wrote: On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:20 pm, you wrote: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows Mandrake puts mount points in /mnt, so it may be /mnt/windows. I use /mnt/winnt. /dev/hda is the disk, /dev/hda1 is a partition. you want to mount a partition. BTW, it WILL be read-only. Read-write access is experimental, don't use it. Thanks for the above Michael. With your advice and adive from many others on the list I am able to mount my NTFS partition. I have added it to fstab and it works fine. I can only access it when logged in as root though. (I'll tackle that next) Many people suggested a FAT32 common area to read/write files between Linux and WindowsXP but I can't do that here. The Windows disk that came with my machine will only install using NTFS and it takes the entire 40g hard drive for itself with no consideration for what may already be on the disk. I haven't found a (free) tool that will let me claim back some of that space to use as anything other than NTFS. I will have the last laugh when I put my final chosen Linux dist on here using both 40g disks and use those Windows CDs for coasters! (margarittas anyone? :) Scott: I've _heard_ of an alternative to Partition Magic (either freeware or relatively inexpensive shareware) that does the same things as PM. I _believe_ it's called Ranish Partition Manager. That would be one way of setting up a FAT32 common data area. (Weasel words underlined because I've never used it.. Hell, I'm not even sure if I've got the name spelled correctly.) Be cautious, but it might be worth a Google. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
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... It's quite simple really, mandrake installer will not , unlike vfat, automatically mount any ntfs partition, yet, but you can do it . I have W2k in a ntfs partition and a number of spare ntfs partitions. As Root, First create files in the /mnt directory for each ntfs partition you want to mount. here are mine, /mnt/ntfs-vol7 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 /mnt/W2000 Then go to /etc/fstab and add entries with a text editor,save and exit. here are mine, /dev/hda10 /mnt/ntfs-vol7 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda12 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/W2000 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 Adapt your entries to your situation. ]# mount -a If your've done it right you can enter any of the above partitions and copy across to mandrake, but you cannot write back.It's not supported, so the work around is to have one modest sized vfat partition and copy to that . -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
Scott, I set up two 40 GB hds to run Windows XP and Mandrake 8.2 . I run WinXP on hda [for some adobe programs and their files that I use in my work] and Linux on hdb. When I installed, I chose to dual boot and set LILO up accordingly. My setup may differ from yours in that respect. In my setup, on the / partition, is /mnt and windows is one of the directories listed, along with crdrom, cdrom2, floppy, disk and zip. If, by chance, you have either windows or ntfs listed there already, then you can open your W2K with the file manager or in terminal with the command cd /mnt/windows (or cd /mnt/ntfs -- however your system is set up). From there, I can copy files onto hdb...but as stated by JRS, you can't write to the ntfs directly. Hope this helps. Erik John Richard Smith wrote: 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... It's quite simple really, mandrake installer will not , unlike vfat, automatically mount any ntfs partition, yet, but you can do it . I have W2k in a ntfs partition and a number of spare ntfs partitions. As Root, First create files in the /mnt directory for each ntfs partition you want to mount. here are mine, /mnt/ntfs-vol7 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 /mnt/W2000 Then go to /etc/fstab and add entries with a text editor,save and exit. here are mine, /dev/hda10 /mnt/ntfs-vol7 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda12 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/W2000 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 Adapt your entries to your situation. ]# mount -a If your've done it right you can enter any of the above partitions and copy across to mandrake, but you cannot write back.It's not supported, so the work around is to have one modest sized vfat partition and copy to that . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
- Original Message - From: Scott Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:13 AM Subject: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition snip 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? /snip I had the same problem. My solution was to create a seperate FAT32 partition on the windows HD (using PartitionMagic) but leaving most of the disk as NTFS. This FAT32 partition is easily mountable and can be read and written to by both linux and XP. Anything to be transferred to the other OS has to be copied to this partition, it could alternatively be on the linux HD and you would probably not need PartiionMagic. Regards PeteW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.389 / Virus Database: 220 - Release Date: 16/09/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
Hi, I could mount (at boot) my NTFS partition without any problem. In /etc/fstab, here my mount how looks like: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k ntfs user,iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,auto,exec,umask=0 0 0 I am running Win2K together with MDK 8.2. I have two partions in my Win2K, one is NTFS (C:\) and FAT32 (D:\). My FAT32 partition is like a bridge. From my Linux partition I can copy files to D:\ (fat32) in order to use them within C:\ (ntfs). Hope this can help Muhend Erik wrote: Scott, I set up two 40 GB hds to run Windows XP and Mandrake 8.2 . I run WinXP on hda [for some adobe programs and their files that I use in my work] and Linux on hdb. When I installed, I chose to dual boot and set LILO up accordingly. My setup may differ from yours in that respect. In my setup, on the / partition, is /mnt and windows is one of the directories listed, along with crdrom, cdrom2, floppy, disk and zip. If, by chance, you have either windows or ntfs listed there already, then you can open your W2K with the file manager or in terminal with the command cd /mnt/windows (or cd /mnt/ntfs -- however your system is set up). From there, I can copy files onto hdb...but as stated by JRS, you can't write to the ntfs directly. Hope this helps. Erik John Richard Smith wrote: 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... It's quite simple really, mandrake installer will not , unlike vfat, automatically mount any ntfs partition, yet, but you can do it . I have W2k in a ntfs partition and a number of spare ntfs partitions. As Root, First create files in the /mnt directory for each ntfs partition you want to mount. here are mine, /mnt/ntfs-vol7 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 /mnt/W2000 Then go to /etc/fstab and add entries with a text editor,save and exit. here are mine, /dev/hda10 /mnt/ntfs-vol7 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda12 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/W2000 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 Adapt your entries to your situation. ]# mount -a If your've done it right you can enter any of the above partitions and copy across to mandrake, but you cannot write back.It's not supported, so the work around is to have one modest sized vfat partition and copy to that . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
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... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
easiest, with GUI; as root, in a text console, without the quotes, diskdrake will bring up the same as you saw using the install, if you used expert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
As far as I am aware.. and I haven't tried it any time recently, If your kernel is compiled with support for it. (and I am guessing that mandrake is. but I don't know that as a fact) you should be able to mount NTFS as read only... support for read/write is not so good and could corrupt your drive. A good info page on NTFS in general with a focus on linux is: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ hope that helps. rgds franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of et Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition easiest, with GUI; as root, in a text console, without the quotes, diskdrake will bring up the same as you saw using the install, if you used expert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
Try this login as root then enter the command : modprobe ntfs then look for your ntfs partition reside on /dev/hda?. To check just run fdisk /dev/hda then press p to show all your partition in your harddrive. Then quit without changing anything (press q). After that you can mount that , for instance if your ntfs partition reside on /dev/hda2 mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/your_ntfs_mount_point. or edit your /etc/fstab file. I have it working without problem .:-) regards - Original Message - From: Scott Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:13 AM Subject: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition 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... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
I had the exact same issue on my comp with XP, and I read up on it a bit... For starters, the others offered useful comments. However, I read that Microsoft made some changes to the NTFS used in XP since its rendition in Win2k. So what you are dealing with is an NTFS v2.0 of sorts... which is sadly not easily mountable in linux, while the first NTFS (v1 if you will), is mountable. This is why you received the error that said wrong fs type. I fixed this problem when I reinstalled windows a month ago by simply formatting my windows drive with FAT32 instead of NTFS. You lose the special NTFS security provisions, but you can easily read/write to the partition in linux. So since you just installed winXP, you might want to reinstall it, putting it on a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS. -- Nathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Felton Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition 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. ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 20:13, 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 try: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows Mandrake puts mount points in /mnt, so it may be /mnt/windows. I use /mnt/winnt. /dev/hda is the disk, /dev/hda1 is a partition. you want to mount a partition. BTW, it WILL be read-only. Read-write access is experimental, don't use it. 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... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
