Frederick Greenhalgh wrote:
Hey, Mandrake noob here, a week in and working on the third of my
main three objectives that will make Windoze completely unecessary!
(USB soundcard - check, wireless pci -check, favorite game -not so
much) Anyways, here's my objective/problem:
I'm trying to get Neverwinter Nights running on my machine in Linux,
which requires read/write priveleges on the drive in question. I do
not have enough room on my Linux partition, so I am trying to coax
Linux into running it off my Windows partition. The partition was
NTFS, but after reading some about Linux's difficulties with NTFS, I
decided to change my filesystem to FAT32. I did this in Windows with
Partition Magic 8.
Now, however, Linux fails to mount the partition at all! I played
around a little in Disk Drake, but was too scared of accidentally
wiping my filesystem data to go too far. I think I've read enough to
get read/write access working once Linux sees the partition again,
but how do I do that?
Thanks for any help you can give, Frederick Greenhalgh New Orleans,
Louisiana
There is probably a line in /etc/fstab pointing to the partition, but
trying to mount it as a read-only, NTFS partition. Because the
partition is no longer NTFS, the mount fails. But because the partition
is already in /etc/fstab, it is not detected as a new partition, so
nothing is done about it. You can safely edit the entry using
harddrake, and change the file system type from NTFS to VFAT. It will
probably be simpler to delete the old entry and create a new one.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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