Robert Sheskin wrote:
>
> Steve Philp wrote:
>
> > First, make sure that the Windows partition is listed in /etc/fstab. I
> > believe Mandrake does this by default.
> >
> > Second, in KDE, right-click on the desktop. Select New->Filesystem
> > Device. Give it a name (keep the .kdelnk part at the end) that will
> > show up on the desktop. Click OK.
> >
> > Third, right-click on the icon that is created, select Properties.
> > Select the Device tab. Into the top entry box, enter the partition name
> > of the Windows partition (/dev/hda1, for example). You may want to
> > change the icons (at the bottom) since the default ones are pretty
> > meaningless.
> >
> > Finally, double-click on the desktop icon and it should auto-magically
> > mount the partition and open a file manager window for you. To unmount
> > the partition, simply right-click on the icon and select Unmount.
> >
> > That's it!
> >
> > --
> > Steve Philp
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I tried all of the above to no avail. My first drive (Windows boot) is
> fat32 but in the /etc/fstab file the drive is listed as follows:
> /dev/hda / vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
> I would think that there would be a distinction between fat16 and fat32.
> When clicking on the created icon I get :
> Could not mount
> mount: /dev/hda already mounted or /busy
> mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdb5 is already mounted on/
> Again thanks for the help.
Well, there are a couple problems here. First, I don't know if you
hand-typed the /etc/fstab info into this message, but you really don't
want the whole drive listed as the partition. You'll probably need a
number after that hda (something like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc).
Second, you don't want to mount your windows drive as the root (/). You
need to create a mountpoint for it (I use /mnt/windows) and change the
"/" to "/mnt/windows".
The incorrect mountpoint is causing the second mount error.
So, edit /etc/fstab and clean up the definitions and all should be fine.
--
Steve Philp
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