problems with moving files...

kiasta · 07-03-2006, 05:38 PM

I am trying to move the Nvidia drivers I just downloaded onto my windows 2000 pro partition but I cant seem to figure it out...I can't login as root so I can't change the permissions on hda1. Is there anything I can do to put files onto my windows partition? BTW I'm using Kubuntu 6.06 (just downloaded about a week ago so I think that is the right build).

Thank you

jschiwal · 07-03-2006, 05:59 PM

If the Windows2000 partition is NTFS, then they are read-only in linux. You could move them to a temporary location where Windows and Linux have full access. Such as a Fat32 partition, or a pen-drive, or a network share, or even burning them to CDROM.

rwc_zippy · 07-05-2006, 01:32 PM

.... or make yourself a fat32 partition that both ubuntu and win200 can read/write to.

That's what I have anyways...

-R

kiasta · 07-06-2006, 08:46 PM

I made a fat32 partition but i dont know how to mount it it keeps saying that it cant find it in fstab or mtab (i think its mtab).

binary_y2k2 · 07-06-2006, 09:34 PM

add

Code:

/dev/hdX /media/shared vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0

to your fatab where hdX is your fat32 partition and /media/shared is the mount point (you may have to create one)
or type (as root)
mount -t vfat /dev/hdX /media/shared -o umask=000