On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 20:03, Dylan wrote:

On Sunday 23 November 2003 18:51 pm, Karel De Vriendt wrote:

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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

HTH

Dylan

First usefull hint but the relevant lines to mount the Windows drives are not there in that file. Can somebody with SUSE 9.0 and a Windows drive mounted via fstab provide me with a copy of the relevant line? Thanks in advance, Karel De Vriendt

--- Dylan wrote:

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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

On Sunday 23 November 2003 18:51 pm, Karel De Vriendt wrote: partitioning

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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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

--- Karel De Vriendt wrote:

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--- Dylan wrote:

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On Sunday 23 November 2003 18:51 pm, Karel De Vriendt wrote:

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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

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 21:12, K V wrote: proposed

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partitioning

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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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

OK,,see attachment for my fstab in suse 9.0 Hope this will help Johan ********** On Tuesday 25 November 2003 23:17, Karel De Vriendt wrote:

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:

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--- Karel De Vriendt

wrote:

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On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 21:12, K V wrote:

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--- Dylan wrote:

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On Sunday 23 November 2003 18:51 pm, Karel De

Vriendt wrote:

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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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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:17:55 +0100 Karel De Vriendt wrote:

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

I have a dual boot machine with WinME and SUSE 9.0 installed. Here are the relevant lines from my /etc/fstab. There are 3 partitions on the WinME part. I only use the Windows stuff for a couple of applications I just have not weened myself off as yet (like Agent for usenet), so I choose not to auto mount the drives ( noauto) - rather, I just mount & unmount them from a right click on the desktop icon as needed (user). The icons are created through Right Click on desktop, Create New... Hard Disc, then enter the drive and mount point - Done. You MUST have the mount points already created, ie /windows/C etc. I cannot remember the significance of the 0 0 but it is in the man files for fstab and I'm pretty sure 0 0 is best. Works just fine - only thing to remember is to unmount the drives in the (very rare) instance the machine needs to shutdown. .........extract........ /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0 Cheers, Paul.