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 . >
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