Hi, Ive got Kanotix 2007 RC6 "Thorhammer" installed in VMPlayer with WINXP (NTFS) as guest. Problem is that Kanotix wont recognise my XP partitions, fdisk –l only returns Kanotix information. So I made a mount point “media/windows” and added following (last) line to Fstab …. /dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs user,ro,auto 0 0 .

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=a2f64cd2-1caf-4e9a-8589-c37daaf8fe2a / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=f4c0d999-1068-4cc7-b32a-0c89cdc6e958 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs user,ro,auto 0 0


NTFS partitions are still not recognised and command… mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /media/windows…just returns….special device /dev/hda1 does not exist.
I tried out CD (bootable) version of same Kanotix and it mounted NTFS automatically. Being new to Linux Im at a loss here and would gratefully appreciate any help.

This reads like a problem/question with VMWare's vmplayer, not a linux question per se. I recently had some problems similar to this, but was related to the Windows XP Remote Connection tool. I had to check the boxes to bring my devices through.

And, for what it's worth, if fdisk -l doesn't return a device, creating a mount point and trying to mount a non-existent device won't change the fact that the device doesn't appear to exist

I'll move your post to Linux - General as I think it's a little more advanced than newbie.

-Chad

Thank you for your reply.Ive since discovered that mounting NTFS from Windows within VMPlayer simply isnt supported as VMPlayer serves as a shield between both systems.
But my next problem in the continuing challenge with Linux and its scary little text-box concerns video play and Mplayer...it patiently awaits some kind souls attention in "Newbies".