Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Karel De Vriendt <Karel.De-Vriendt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I see the green screen, press apply and nothing happens.

May I once again ask if somebody who has after installing SUSE 9.0 and
has his/her windows drives on the desktop can send me his/her fstab file
so that I can copy/adapt the relevant lines?

Thanks, Karel De Vriendt

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 21:41, K V wrote:
> --- Karel De Vriendt <Karel.De-Vriendt@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 21:12, K V wrote:
> > > --- Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 23 November 2003 18:51 pm, Karel De
> > > > Vriendt wrote:
> > > > > I have a dual boot machine (Windows and SUSE
> > 9.0).
> > > > >
> > > > > When one installs SUSE 9.0 on a PC with
> > Windows
> > > > drives, one should
> > > > > get the Windows drives mounted at startup and
> > one
> > > > should get icons on
> > > > > the desktop for easy access to these drives.
> > > > >
> > > > > Unfortunately, I changed something in the
> > proposed
> > > > partitioning
> > > > > solution when I installed SUSE 9.0 and as a
> > side
> > > > effect, the Windows
> > > > > drives are not mounted at startup and the
> > icons
> > > > are not placed on the
> > > > > desktop.
> > > > >
> > > > > I do not want to start the installation again
> > and
> > > > I assume that I can
> > > > > put the right lines in one or the other
> > > > configuration file.  Can
> > > > > somebody help and tell me how?
> > > > 
> > > > The file you need is /etc/fstab
> > > > 
> > > > You need to remove the 'noauto' from the
> > relevant
> > > > lines.
> > > > 
> > > > man fstab will give you more info, as will man
> > mount
> > > 
> > > Or, if you're a graphical-user-interface type of
> > > person, you can go to
> > > ControlCenter->YAST2->System->Partitioner.  
> > > First make sure a mount point is set (e.g.
> > /windows/C)
> > > for the partition in question, then go to 'fstab
> > > options' and uncheck 'do not mount at system
> > startup'.
> > > The effect will be the same as editing /etc/fstab
> > by
> > > hand.
> > > 
> > > Klaus
> > > 
> > 
> > I did (as root) but no changes to fstab were made
> > (hence nothing
> > happened).
> 
> That's very strange. For me, once I hit the 'apply'
> button in the YaST module, all changes are written
> directly to /etc/fstab. Did you see that green warning
> screen saying 'do you really want to apply these
> changes'?
> 
> Klaus
>  
> 
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