Franklin Maurer wrote:
On Thursday 30 January 2003 2:33 pm, Doug Weeks wrote:
Again, I'm a newbie on SuSe....I have a dual boot with about 10gigs alocated to windows 98. With Mandrake I could mount the windows partition with a file manager and manipulate files, put docs from open office into "My Documents" on the windows partition. With SuSe, I chose the default installation which boots windows fine. However, 2 things different: 1-there was no /home partition created-is this weird or do I just make a folder for /Home. 2-under /mnt there is no windows partition listed. Is it somewhere else? I know its there cuz I can boot to it? Bear with us newbs Doug
Doug welcome to SuSE, You're /home is simply part of the root partiton if you accepted the installer's default option for partitioning, so there doesn't need to be a home in fstab.
in fstab add (if one doesn't already exist) /dev/hda6 /Windows/F vfat noauto,user,rw,exec 0 0
you can change the /Windows/F to whatever you want, just make sure to add the dir for the mount point. If you use kde, you can right click on the desktop > select create new > hard disk. Under properties there should be a choice for /windows/ or for /dev/hd?? Now you have an link to the windows partition when you need it.
You can change the fstab entry from noauto to auto if you want it mounted every time you log on.
Thanks Franklin for the help! I did that with the line /dev/hda1 /windows vfat nonauto,user,rw,exec 0 0 in the /etc/fstab and made the link on the kde desktop but get the error message: [mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab mont: mount point /windows does not exist ???????????????? Any ideas, what is a final newline, I know it exist cause I checked the partitions Doug