Dear Alexander and All,

Why don't you use the Partitioner module of YaST2? Anyway, you may use e.g. /dev/sda4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 in /etc/fstab. The reasons to use the fourth partition on the zip are historical and may be described in a ZIP drive HOWTO. To mount the zip, use "mount /media/zip" or create a KDE ZIP device icon.

I have it working now. I put in the line with vfat not media in fstab and it works. Would media be better for some reason? I would have loved to have used the Partiioner module but I did not know how. I am new to Suse not to Linux Mandrake but Mandrake does not have it. It sounds like the way to go. Are there instructions on how to use it? Thanks for the help. I am very happy to have my zip working.:) Sincerely, Marcia

Glenn Hollowell wrote:

I've just installed SuSE 8.1 on my hard drive which had Windows 2000 on an NTFS partition. The partition was detected just fine and Grub was configured without a hitch. The only problem is that the Windows partition is read-only. In the past, (w/SuSE 8.0 and earlier) I'd had Win2000 on a Vfat partition...this worked great as I was able to read, write and save files on c:/ from my Linux partition. Any suggestions? Then I try to enable the write permission for c:/ drive, (when logged in as root) I get a "this drive is read only" error message. I've tried several fstab configurations, but have made no progress.

I think this is currently correct: linux does not allow you to write to NTFS because not enough is known about it to do this safely. The kind of solution that works reasonably is to create a VFAT partition that you can write and NTFS can read. Alternatively, there may be tools out there to read/write your linux partitions from Win2000: linux uses open filesystems; so it's much easier to find out in detail how they work. JDL