Hello Everyone,

Yesterday I installed ubuntu 6.06 and found to my astonishment then it supported my wireless card out of the box unlike the other 5 distros I have tried this week. Hooray! I thought..

Everything was all well until I tried to mount one of my NTSC windows hard drives to access my mp3s and such like. When i recieved the error:

error: device /dev/hdh1 is not removable

error: could not execute pmount

Now to me this seems as though it is trying to mount my hard drive as some sort of external media? Im not sure but I am also getting a problem with my GRUB, error code 17 now i believe this also has something to do with not being able to mount hard drives properly, but im not sure...

Anybody any ideas? Thanks in advance,

Jack.

Exactly what do you mean by NTSC? If you just misspelled NTFS then the mounting should be no problem if you mount it read only. There are quite stable NTFS drivers that support writing to NTFS-volumes but I have no personal experience. When I installed Ubuntu Dapper Drake I had to do a little tweaking to get things to my liking. To be quite frank I don't remember if my NTFS partitions showed up or not. Take a look at the /etc/fstab line for the hard drive. Mine look like this:

/dev/hda1 /media/hda1-ntfs ntfs user,ro,gid=1000,nls=utf8,umask=227 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2-ntfs ntfs user,ro,gid=1000,nls=utf8,umask=227 0 0

With these lines in fstab my NTFS partitions mount without any problems. You needn't worry about the gid option. Just skip it. Option user can also be skipped if you're happy with mounting during startup as option user means that any user can mount and unmount provided that the user is a member of the group users. Add the user to the appropriate line in /etc/group or the user option in fstab has no effect. Good luck.

Hi,

Got it sorted thankyou and I did mean ntfs (ntsc tv format duh :S daft me) anyway any ideas about this grub error 17?

Cheers,
Jack.

Have no personal experience with Grub error 17 but there's a host of info if you google "grub error 17". This one seemed pretty solid to me:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sla...rror-17-a.html

Good Luck
Gösta