Re: Newby : Duel Boot question

From: geORge (george_at_linux.local)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:17:05 -0800

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:49:26 -0800, geORge wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:26:39 +0000, Mike wrote:
>
>> geORge wrote:
>>
>>> Im using win xp and suse 9 pro. my 1st install didnt format and use a
>>> /home partition, so like an idiot, i used webmin to rename and mount
>>> what it called /data1 to /home. That mistake caused me to reinstall
>>> the whole thing again. Problem is before this mistake, i could play
>>> mp3 files off my winxp partition on xmms, however; now, suse doesnt
>>> see or isnt mounting the xp partition. before, i had on the desktop, a
>>> hard drive looking box that i could click on and see what was in
>>> windows also in any file manager, i could see /windows. Now nothing.
>>> Question is how do i get it back and keep it there so that i dont have
>>> to remount every time i log into suse?
>>>
>>> Your help is greatly appriaciated Thanx
>>
>> So after the reinstall you don't have an icon for your windows
>> partition? That's a bit odd as SuSE usually puts it there. You need to
>> know what partition windows is on. Assuming that it is on the first
>> partition on your primary master IDE device and that the directory
>> /windows/c exists on your Linux filesystem then the following command
>> should mount it:
>>
>> mount /dev/hda1 /windows/c
>>
>> Assuming that this works, you can add the following line to /etc/fstab
>>
>> /dev/hda1 /windows/c auto ro,auto,user,exec 0 0
>>
>> Then you can create the desktop shortcut by right clicking on the
>> desktop and selecting Create New > Hard disk.
>>
>> Mike.
>
>
> When i try to mount /dev/hda1, it returns /windows/c doesnt exist. Its
> there, when i look to see in yast-partitions, it sees it there.

I placed /dev/hda1 /windows/c auto ro,auto,user,exec 0 0 into
/etc/fstab and rebooted. That produced the windows icon on my desktop but
with the same message that it doesnt exist.

Do i need to run lilo or something?

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