[CLUE-Tech] Linux Newbie Help search

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:35:37 -0600
"Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:

Just a few extra suggestions.

>
> First thing is to mount your Windoze partition under linux. That will
> require knowing which partition it is, and having it listed in
> /etc/fstab-- a line looking something like:
> 
>   /dev/hda /windows vfat noauto,ro 0 0

You need to edit /etc/fstab as root, but unless you plan on always
mounting as root, the line should be (to permit normal users to mount):

     /dev/hda /windows vfat noauto,user,ro 0 0

> 
> Uh, that's assuming Windoze/ME uses VFAT, and not NTFS; otherwise use
> "ntfs" in the above line. The "ro" is read-only, for safety's sake.
> 

> 
>   $ cd /
>   $ mkdir windows

This does need to be as root.


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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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