I think you should take a look at supermount, or mount the partition as part 
of the mount -a cycle. Add the following to /etc/fstab to do it (but modify 
it for your mountpoints and fylesystem):

/dev/hda5       /d      vfat    ro       0 0

Hope this helps,
Cedric

On Monday 14 November 2005 14:06, Richard A Downing wrote:
> I've converted my 85 year old father to Linux.  He's now running KDE
> happily (I always said it looked like it came from Redmond).
>
> However, he has some photos on the Windows partition that he wants to
> access in gimp. It's an NTFS partition.  I've explained how to mount it
> manually, and yes, the kernel was compiled with NTFS readonly support in.
>
> It occured to me that KDE might have a more 'point and click'y way to do
> this, but I don't have access to a copy right now.  Does anyone who used
> KDE have any advice?
>
> Also does KDE normally have a CD automounter?
>
> R.
-- 
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/
Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Reply via email to