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
[newbie] What can I save from 8.2?
I have a fairly new install of Mandrake 8.2. If (when) I decide to upgrade to 9.0 what should I or can I save? Is it easier to start from scratch or can I save what is in my /home directory? I'm just not sure if eveything in /home would be compatible with whatever would be installed during an upgrade to 9.0? I have seperate partitions for: / /home /usr /usr/local and a 300m swap partition. Starting from scratch is not a big issue but I thought I'd get some opinions and advice. My machine is a just for fun workstation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Panel Applet - unadd?
OK I'm stumped. I've been having a grand time playing with Mandrake 8.2 and I've got many things configured to my liking. Then I did this Right click on panel Add Applet Runaway Process Catcher I now have a smiley on my panel that frowns from time to time. How do I get rid of him? I can't find anything in the help files or menus to make him go away. TIA... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What can I save from 8.2?
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:37 pm, you wrote: I prefer to find everything on the entire install that I want to keep, including home, any config stuff and whatever else.. and put the lot in its own directory... (say /backup) Then tar that directory up...: tar -zcvvf backup.tar.gz /backup and make yourself a nice compressed tar of everything you need... then copy that somewhere else.. (off that system or a protected partition) and reinstall, then uncompress the tar after you have your old user accounts setup again.. that why file ownership doesn't become an issue.. (since tar files preserve file permissions.) Frank Thanks Frank. I've actually installed 8.2 twice now. The second install was after I figured out how to resize my WinXP partiton. I took everything in /home and burned it on a CD, did a fresh install, then replaced eveything in /home with the files on the CD. I can't remember if I did this as root or maybe it was the CD files became read only but it was a heck of a mess. I couldn't delete mail in Kmail, configure any settings (the old ones just returned I guess because the files were read only). Half were owned by me and half were owned by root. I did a lot of reading up on chown and chmod before I got it fixed! I'll take your tarball method as a better option. The conventional advice is to keep /home, and reformat/rewrite the others. You may end up with some extraneous stuff (but then you're the guy with two 40 gb drives, too), and some settings might need tweaking, but nothing horrendous should occur. You will lose any apps that you've added since the 8.2 install, but that may not be a bad thing, since dependencies and file locations have been known to change from version to version. Yes Carroll, this is what I'm afraid of. With so little time invested I have very little to loose. I want to avoid having bits and pieces of two versions of Mdk on here. I think the only file I installed that wasn't part of 8.2 to begin with was Everybuddy (the one with Mdk8.2 wouldn't log on to Yahoo chat for me). I may just save some stuff from my /home directory and start with all new. While you're at it, consider adding a partition that can be used as a storage space (mine's called /archives). You can copy your old /home there, do a completely fresh install, and then just bring back the stuff that's worth This is a good idea if I understand you. If I create an /archive partition, copy anything worth saving there, then during a fresh install /archive is left untouched when I define my usual partitions/mount points during a new install? I guess I would have to mount that partition from a terminal window to copy from it after the install? Thanks all Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Panel Applet - unadd?
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:19 pm, you wrote: I now have a smiley on my panel that frowns from time to time. How do I get rid of him? I can't find anything in the help files or menus to make him go away. TIA... Keep left or right? clicking on the left side of the little panel the smiley is on, eventually you'll get lucky and see cross bars and can drag it off or a menu comes up to allow removing it. There's probably an easier way but that's what finally worked for me. Good luck, Richard. Thanks Richard. That worked just fine. I never even noticed those little stipples next to the icon. I would have been pulling out (what's left of) my hair for days! 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
[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
