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Paladin9:
i tried mounting the windows partions and i am still having problems. I have FAT32 and NTFS on my computer and LINUX would not take it.  I think i am doing it right because i was able to mount another ext3 partion.  At first it said that it did not exist in fstab.  well, i went to that file and added it, and now it says that fat and ntfs are not supported file systems by the kernel. I did this same procedure with the other ext3 partion i have and it actually worked.  But those damn windows partions will still not work.  Is there something that i am doing wrong?  

I am using Red Hat Linux 7.3 - if that means anything

Master of Reality:
if you want to mount your windows partition do:
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows
after making the folder: /mnt/windows (mkdir /mnt/windows) and replace '/dev/hda2' with wherever your windows partition really is:

/dev/hda means the first drive
/dev/hdb means the second drive
and /dev/hda1 (/dev/hdb1) would mean the first partition on the first drive (second drive)

Paladin9:
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!

It worked!  thanks for the help.

choasforages:

quote:HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!  
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most people feel the same when they play with linux and make it stand up and do something, i remeber when i burned cds in windows, and used them in linux, cuase i could figure out how to do what you asked, hollyshit is what i said, and read access on ntfs partitions, has saved my ass a few times.

Centurian:

quote:Originally posted by Paladin9:
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!

It worked!  thanks for the help.
--- End quote ---


Hey Paladin,

If you want to do it so it loads everything automatically. You can change your /etc/fstab file.

Here is what mine looks like including mounting some samba drives with smbfs.
***********
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
//bobbi/C /mnt/bobbi_c smbfs username=% 0 0
//bobbi/D /mnt/bobbi_d smbfs username=% 0 0
//kds1/C /mnt/kds1_c smbfs username=% 0 0
//kds1/D /mnt/kds1_d smbfs username=% 0 0
//kds2/C /mnt/kds2_c smbfs username=% 0 0
//kds2/D /mnt/kds2_d smbfs username=% 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
**********

The Samba drives (windows on other computers) and the windows drives on this comp are all automounted at boot. The floppie and CD have to be mounted to use. I use /usr/bin/usermount to quickly and efficiently mount and unmount them as I need them.

I use Mandrake 8.1 but it will be the same on any linux distro.

Hey Everyone,

I'm back. Well actually I never left. Been reading this forum for ever with out posting. I just had nothing to say until now.

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