Dual Boot and Mounting?

urbman · 07-30-2003, 01:17 PM

I setup a machine running Windows 2000 Pro SP4, works perfectly. I then installed Linux Redhat 7 from the CD Linux Administration a Beginners Guide. I was able to get the installation to work. I think my problem is that during the Disk Druid partioning I created 3 partitions /, /usr, /swap and didn't mount the NTFS windows partition. So the machine boots up and doesn't give me the option for Windows. I think what I need to do is
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k ntfs auto,ro,umask=002 0 0

and then make an edit to the lilo.conf

Is there something else I might need to do?

Mara · 07-30-2003, 01:43 PM

No, that should be enough (if you have /mnt/win2k directory). Test it with
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k
But I'm not sure if RH 7.0 has NTFS support. BTW If possible, upgrade (for example to 7.3), version 7.0 wasn't good.

aaa · 07-30-2003, 02:29 PM

So Windows doesn't work or what?

urbman · 07-30-2003, 03:23 PM

It doesn't give me the option to make it work. I have no way of even seeing the drive. I have to assume it is still going to work since it is on a seperate partition. I am going home in a bit so I will play with it some more.

aaa · 07-30-2003, 03:30 PM

Did what Mara told you work? Try "fdisk -l" to see your partitions. Did you have an empty partition for linux? Because if you didn't, and didn't use Partition Magic to make space...

urbman · 07-30-2003, 05:00 PM

fdisk -l did NOT list anything.

seems RH 7.0 doesn't support ntfs
when I try to run mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k
I get this
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

What is the easiest way to upgrade? I dont' care about the version so much. 7.3, 8.0 or 9.0? PII 266 128mb 30GB HD

I am thinking I should download it and burn to a CD and install from there?

aaa · 07-31-2003, 08:57 AM

I forgot, it should be "fdisk -l /dev/hda". Don't forget to switch to root. Red Hat has an upgrade you can get to read ntfs. I think the newer versions still need this upgrade.

urbman · 07-31-2003, 03:54 PM

I have copies of 7.3 and 9 now. I am hopeful this will take care of this. Another night of typing in store.

urbman · 08-01-2003, 10:59 AM

I upgraded to RH 9 and during the upgrade process it detected my NTFS partition and bingo I can dual boot. My kids will be happy. Too bad really, my son is the only one who will even try to use RH.

Hoops66 · 08-01-2003, 12:24 PM

if you want to be able to mount the NTFS in 9 use this handy guide, http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html . It's really simple to follow, you might have a snag at the fstab when it's all said and done though... read "mounting NTFS" post to see how to fix it