Scott, I set up two 40 GB hds to run Windows XP and Mandrake 8.2 . I run WinXP on hda [for some adobe programs and their files that I use in my work] and Linux on hdb.
When I installed, I chose to dual boot and set LILO up accordingly. My setup may differ from yours in that respect. In my setup, on the / partition, is /mnt and windows is one of the directories listed, along with crdrom, cdrom2, floppy, disk and zip. If, by chance, you have either windows or ntfs listed there already, then you can open your W2K with the file manager or in terminal with the command cd /mnt/windows (or cd /mnt/ntfs -- however your system is set up). From there, I can copy files onto hdb...but as stated by JRS, you can't write to the ntfs directly. Hope this helps. Erik John Richard Smith wrote: > 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 >> 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... >> >> >> > It's quite simple really, mandrake installer will not , unlike vfat, > automatically mount any ntfs partition, yet, but you can do it . > I have W2k in a ntfs partition and a number of spare ntfs partitions. > As Root, > First create files in the /mnt directory for each ntfs partition > you want to mount. here are mine, > > /mnt/ntfs-vol7 > /mnt/ntfs-vol8 > /mnt/ntfs-vol9 > /mnt/W2000 > > Then go to /etc/fstab and add entries with a text editor,save and > exit. here are mine, > > /dev/hda10 /mnt/ntfs-vol7 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda11 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda12 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/W2000 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 > > Adapt your entries to your situation. > > > ]# mount -a > > If your've done it right you can enter any of the above partitions > and copy across to mandrake, but you cannot write back.It's > not supported, so the work around is to have one modest sized > vfat partition and copy to that . > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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