On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 20:13, Scott Felton wrote:
> 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
try:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows
Mandrake puts mount points in /mnt, so it may be /mnt/windows. I use
/mnt/winnt.
/dev/hda is the disk, /dev/hda1 is a partition. you want to mount a
partition.
BTW, it WILL be read-only. Read-write access is experimental, don't use
it.
> 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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