Partition Names?

electronblue019 · 02-17-2006, 11:05 AM

Quick question,
Does anybody know how to find what the mount point of a Windows partition is before installing a Linux distro? I'm preparing to install Fedora Core 4, and incase the boot loader setup doesn't automatically find my Windows partition and configure GRUB to boot to it, I don't want to have to guess at what to tell GRUB to boot to to get to windows.

Centinul · 02-17-2006, 11:20 AM

You could always run fdisk -l with a liveCD and this should give you the partition table for your hard drive. I could be incorrect in the command so I would read the man page first. The output of the command should list all the partitions as well as what type they are. Usually the windows ones say "NTFS" or "Windows" or something along those lines. I can't remember exactly, hope this helps!

Thetargos · 02-17-2006, 11:33 AM

Or from the installation CD/DVD either on rescue mode, or VC 1/2 (ctrl+alt+F1/2) when Anaconda is already running