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Interscope:
Debian is nice... Although i have 1 tiny problem. I mounted my windoze partitions on which I downloaded nvidia drivers. It doesn't allow me to write stuff on the windoze partitions, though, so i can't extract the files in which they reside. Should I add some extra parameters(or however you call those things... I'm a n00b when it comes to 3l337 hax0r jibberish, (-= ) when mounting? Because in Slackware and Mandrake it worked fine.

BTW, I must say that i'm truly impressed that all you need to install debian is 2 floppy disks. My CDROM-Drive is screwed and it doesnt load any cdroms anymore, so I couldn't boot cds. apt-get is lovable.

Stryker:

quote:Originally posted by Interscope:
Debian is nice... Although i have 1 tiny problem. I mounted my windoze partitions on which I downloaded nvidia drivers. It doesn't allow me to write stuff on the windoze partitions, though, so i can't extract the files in which they reside. Should I add some extra parameters(or however you call those things... I'm a n00b when it comes to 3l337 hax0r jibberish, (-= ) when mounting? Because in Slackware and Mandrake it worked fine.

BTW, I must say that i'm truly impressed that all you need to install debian is 2 floppy disks. My CDROM-Drive is screwed and it doesnt load any cdroms anymore, so I couldn't boot cds. apt-get is lovable.
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if it's ntfs you'll be a lot better off if you dotn try to write, if it's fat than try doing it as root, shouldn't have a problem there.

Interscope:
fat

no succes...

btw the command i use is
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /windows/d

voidmain:
Do you get an error message? If so, what is it? Can you post the output of an "# fdisk -l" command? Does the "/windows/d" directory exist before trying to mount something on it?

If you want all users to be able to write to it you need to add the "umask=000" parameter to the mount command and/or to your /etc/fstab.

To mount it on the command line with that option you would:

# mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /windows/d -o umask=000

But I suggest adding this line to your /etc/fstab:


--- Code: ---
--- End code ---

Then it will mount automatically that way when you boot. Or you can manually mount it by typing:

# mount /windows/d

And of course for any of this to work the /windows/d directory has to exist prior to mounting:

# mkdir -p /windows/d

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

preacher:

quote:Originally posted by X11:
I have tried Debain and arrr, Red-Hat is better, i just dislike Debian because of how difficult it can be to setup. So it is my favorite before urm... here is how i feel right now on distros in general.

Red-Hat
Slackware
SuSe
Debian
Mandrake

"Wishing and wishing away as we go"
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I cant believe you dislike mandrake so much. Here is my order.

Slackware
Mandrake
Red Hat
Suse
FreeBSD

Someone once told me that if I liked Slackware, I would like FreeBSD, this was not the case. I had multiple problems with Red Hat when I first tried it that werent present when I tried Mandrake for the first time. The installer for slackware is nowhere near as hard as people made it out to be, and it runs a whole hell of a lot faster than Mandrake, Red Hat, or SuSe. Since I run generally slow computers, the speed issue was the factor that put slackware ahead of all others.

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