Re: can't install WP8 on Suse 9.0

From: howard kainz (hkainz_at_wi.rr.com)
Date: 01/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:21:11 GMT

Some progress, but not completely. I changed the ntfs label to vfat in
drive E:, and the drive was promply mounted, and the "w" for root and
user appeared for all files. But Word Perfect still thinks they are
read-only files, and will not allow any changes. I will copy some files
to my other fat32 drive, to see if the same thing happens.
       Howard Kainz

Kevin Nathan wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:24:53 GMT
> howard kainz <hkainz@wi.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Well, I may have spoken too soon!
>
>
> Don't panic! :-) We have a solution . . .
>
>
>
>>To solve the problem you
>>mentioned, I used Partition Magic to convert the NTFS data partition
>>(hda6) to a FAT32 partition.
>
>
> Exactly what I did on a laptop for a client several months ago.
>
>
>
>>Since Linux reads my other FAT32
>>(hda8) partition without any problems, I thought this would make the
>>data partition readable.
>
>
> It does.
>
>
>
>>But now the data partition can't be
>>mounted in Linux -- "wrong FS." Checking the partitions with YAST,
>>Linux correctly notes that both hda6 and hda8 are FAT32 partitions,
>>but Linux doesn't ascribe a Windows Drive letter (E:) to hda6; the
>>drive letter is skipped.
>
>
> Linux doesn't use drive letters, just directories in a tree structure.
> The problem is the "wrong FS" msg -- you changed it to FAT32 and Linux
> is still trying to mount it NTFS. Simple fix, see next answer.
>
>
>
>>Looks like I've got myself into something
>>over my head. I'd hat to have to reinstall after my success with
>>WP8.
>
>
> There is seldom any need to reinstall Linux to fix a problem. Such is
> the case for you, too. Open a terminal window, pick your favorite
> editor and do the following:
>
> sux
> (enter root password)
> favoriteEditor /etc/fstab
>
> and in that file, change all occurences of "ntfs" to "vfat". Save the
> file and, still as root, do:
>
> mount -a
> exit
>
> Now check it out . . . :-)
>
>

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