[luau] Connecting NT from Gnome

Ray Strode halfline at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Mar 25 18:55:23 PST 2002


> But I do know that my files are NTFS, I set it up that way.  

Okay, then you may or may not have support already for it.

Okay, click Foot >> Programs >> System >> Gnome Terminal

and then type

ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs/

what does it say?

if you don't see ntfs in there, then type this

cat /proc/filesystems

if you don't see ntfs in there, then chances are you will need to 
recompile your kernel

If you've never done that before, then I can try to walk you through it 
on the mailing list or you can come on thursday to the installfest and 
we can do it there.

If you saw ntfs in one of those places then type

su
[type your root password]
mkdir /mnt/windows
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -oro

If the last command doesn't give you errors, then you should half access 
to your windows drive at /mnt/windows.  You can get to it from the 
terminal by typing

cd /mnt/windows
ls

You can get to it from Nautilus or GMC.

If the above things work, and you want to set it up to automatically 
mount the windows drive on bootup, then tell me and I'll tell you how.

> What I don't understand is how do I find out what the {partition} and 
> {mount point} is?  

Generally, you can deduce it from where the hardware is.  If you are 
using IDE, then the partition is going to be
/dev/hdMN

where M is a letter from a to d and N is an integer.  Primary Master is 
a, Primary Slave is b, Secondary Master is c, and Secondary Slave is d.
The first partition on the drive is 1, the second partition on the drive 
is 2, etc...

Windows is normally installed on /dev/hda1

--Ray






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