RH 9.0 and where is my Win Partitions?

Mega Man X · 06-04-2003, 08:11 AM

Hi!!!

This is the first time I use RH and Win2k together in a dual boot. Or I use Redhat or Win-slow, but never in a dual boot.
I did it once though, with Mandrake and it was ok. The problem is... I cannot see my winslow partitions with Redhat, or I'm looking at the wrong place. In Mandrake, if I'm not mistaken, they were at:

/mnt/win_d and /mnt/win_c

What happened?

P.S: My win partitions are in Fat32 and perfectly working, once I boot win2k...

Any help about how to see and write to them would be great

Thanks

whansard · 06-04-2003, 08:18 AM

type
mount
at the prompt and you can see where they are, if loaded.

Mega Man X · 06-04-2003, 08:23 AM

Thanks whansard

this is what I have.. I'm lost...

Code:

[alex@bonet alex]$ mount
/dev/hda7 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

I think hda1 is win_c, hda2 is win_d, but they are not visible... I dunno what to do

whansard · 06-04-2003, 08:34 AM

if you want it the same as before
mkdir /mnt/win_c
mkdir /mnt/win_d
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d

if that's how you want it, you can make fstab entries later

Mega Man X · 06-04-2003, 10:00 AM

whansard, you really are a Guru at this

Thanks. It worked fine mounting the C drive, but I could not get D to work, returning this error message:

Code:

[root@Alex root]# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d
mount: error while guessing filesystem type
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Mega Man X · 06-04-2003, 10:02 AM

I've got it... oddly, my D:\ partition is listed as hda5... strange...

Thanks a lot my friend

whansard · 06-04-2003, 10:42 AM

thanks for the complement, but i don't think that deserves
it. do you think that your d drive is ntfs?
i don't know if your kernel supports that or not, but i think
you could download support for it without recompiling
your kernel.
it might be mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d

you can post output from fdisk -l
that might reveal some other options

Mega Man X · 06-04-2003, 11:05 AM

My D drive was actually NTFS before, that's true. I then converted it with PQmagic 8 to FAT32, so I could safely write to D from Linux. That made my Linux locks up at the boot. I've just formated and installed Redhat in it's old Linux Partitions, but in a fresh install. So I'm sure that D:\ is FAT32 now

.
Unless, Pqmagic did something odd at it :S.

Well, I hope you also understand about CDroms and DVDroms. I've another mounting problem. Mandrake had some useful mouting tools and with acid help I could fix it, but I cannot get it to work anymore.

I've a DVD rom, set as master and at my mnt/cdrom and a cd-r at my mnt/cdrom1.
I can mount it with

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd

but always when I try to play DVD movies I got an error:

Couldn't open DEVICE : /dev/dvd

I think I'm missing some link somewhere or not mounting it properly. My fstab has:

Code:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda9               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Sorry to ask those newbie stuff

but I'm a newbie...hehe
Thanks a lot again

whansard · 06-04-2003, 11:10 AM

ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

then play the dvd

Mega Man X · 06-04-2003, 11:26 AM

That worked... I cannot believe how you guys can learn so much. Hope someday I can have this level with this wonderful thing Linux is

I did not undestand the code ln, but rocks

Thanks a lot my friend once again. Thanks to you I will watch tonight Lord of the Rings SE with my wife in my Linux Box

.

Viva Linux!!!

whansard · 06-04-2003, 05:48 PM

Thanks.

Mega Man X · 06-05-2003, 01:31 PM

Well, if you still reading this post and if I'm not annoying you

I've one more newbie question.
How should I do to mount those partitions automaticaly at the boot up? I've added into fstab /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d for exemple, but it was really wrong, I think

thanks again

whansard · 06-05-2003, 01:47 PM

/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_c vfat user,noexec,nodev,suid,rw,umask=0 0 0

probably what you want

Mega Man X · 06-05-2003, 03:19 PM

Thanks again man

As always, it worked.

Well, I think I better print this page out to when I ever need to format my computer and update my changelog

Thanks again.