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...
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