I should not but in here , but surely, if you want your WinXP partition recognised in LM(X.X) then all you neet to do is create a directory in /mnt , call it anything you like,eg W-XP, and then go to /etc/fstab and write a stanza to mount it at boot time.
John On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:22, you wrote: > I did that. > Okay, (I have to do this from Memory because i haven't got Linux booted > up). > > BUT you go to Control Center, then.....boot. > Then you click on something in there, and it will have a variety of > options, and it will say default or boot up or something. > > Then you have a selection of the different boot up modes you can do. > You select the one that is selected as default (it will have (default) next > to it) and select properties, and unselect the thing that makes it be > default. > > THEN you select Windows (on my system it is called NT) and select > properties and check the default button. > > and then press okay, and apply and all sorts of confirmation buttons. > > Hope this helps, if it doesn't I'm sure ANYONE can provide a more thorough > description. > > John > > From: Greg Smitih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [newbie] How to read and write to a Win XP partition > >Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:05:24 -0400 > > > >Sorry for butting in here, but I was wondering how you get your XP > >partition > >to mount automatically. I have to manually mount it every time I start up > >Linux. > > > >On Wednesday 10 April 2002 04:49 am, you wrote: > > > aybe try to change as root the file permissions of the /mnt/windows > > > partition to 777 (chmod 777 /mnt/windows) > > > > > > Hope this helps > > > > > > Antonio > > > > > > ----- Mensaje Original ----- > > > Remitente: luca braglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Fecha: Mi�rcoles, Abril 10, 2002 10:31 am > > > Asunto: [newbie] How to read and write to a Win XP partition > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I have Window$ XP installed on sda1 and Mandrake 8.2 on sdb1 > > > > how can I mount manually the Window$ partition to enable > > > > writing on the XP partition ? > > > > I tried to mount the normal way but I can only read. > > > > On the message log I get this : > > > > > > > > Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read only > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > > > Luca > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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