On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, K B wrote: > We got my system up and working. We had to disable (okay, unplug) the > Promise ATA controller to get RH installed, and the nForce2 patches > working. Then, at the end, I plugged the controller back in. How do I > mount up my windows partitions (both NTFS and FAT32) in Linux? (I've > done it before, on a Mandrake install- they were under /mnt/windows/) Is > there something I need to enable for this to work, or what? First make a /mnt/windows directory make a subdir for each partition mount them manually: mount /dev/hdx?? /mnt/windows/win9x -t vfat mount /dev/hdx?? /mnt/windows/winxp -t ntfs And/or add them to fstab: /dev/hdx?? /mnt/windows/win9x vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hdx?? /mnt/windows/winxp ntfs defaults 0 0 Then they'll mount on bootup. > Also, on a seperate matter, XP Pro will no longer boot (I went to start > it, then powered it off- now it goes to the 'sorry, but your system > didn't boot right last time' menu and when I select one, it locks > up) 98SE will, but it will not read my NTFS partitions. Anybody know a > trick to mount NTFS under 98SE? You can grab the freebie (read only) version of NTFSDos at sysinternals.com. > If I were to reinstall XP Pro, I know it'd clobber my MBR. Yup. > How could I recover that, to the way it is now, without having to > reinstall? (RH GRUB bootloader) Well, I assume you have the XP CD handy. You can boot up into recovery console and use the boot sector recovery tools, but again I think you'll fry your boot sector. What I would do is make a boot floppy (mkbootdisk I think) of your Redhat system, then try the recovery console trick to get your XP boot sector back. Then boot up RH with the floppy and restore GRUB (see the other thread I started on how to do that) and you should be OK. > If I go to the Hardware Browser tool, under "Hard Drives" I see all > four drives, with their respective partitions. But, if I go to "Info > Center" and select "Partitions" I only see my RH, CDROM and floppy > drives and partitions. What do I need to do in order to get my Windows > paritions mounted? (I can successfully boot to Windows, so the > partitions are seen on their own) I'm not exactly sure why this is a problem, if you use the steps I mentioned above you should be able to mount them with no problem. -Brian _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list