Sean Goh wrote:

> er....i'm a real newbie....what does it mean to mount?
>
> Sean
>
> Mad Scientist wrote:
>
>>On Thursday 01 August 2002 11:00 pm, you wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>i was wondering how to mount  hda1  so i can  access my win xp files
>>>even though i hate win xp.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
>>
>>Replace /mnt/disk with your mountpoint.
>>
>>-Mad
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Amend /etc/fstab, add something like

/dev/hda1 /mnt/WXP ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0

Add a new subdirectory in  /mnt

/mnt/WXP

In terminal
run

mount -a

And you can browse XP files , but don't write to them .
All this assumes NTFS XP install,
otherwise change ntfs to vfat, for FAT32

John

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