Wndows drive on Linux
 

i am running Suse 9.2
i just updated to KDE 3.4 level b. I have two hard disks, one Linux and the other is windows on a dual boot. Before i update my KDE, i used to see my windows hard disk as "/windows/C". After i updated, i can't see it anymore, i can load windows without any problem, and windows can see the linux drive but can't read it "i understand this" but i could read my windows before i update from KDE 3.3 to KDE 3.4

I am assuming that i might need to install one packege to read the NT drive from Yast. if this is true, what is the packege name ??

help please!

Thanks alot.

You should have something like this in your /etc/fstab

/dev/hda(whichever drive it is) /windows/C vfat(or ntfs) noatime,user

I have none of this !!!

i used to have /windows/c before i updated !!

All you have to do is edit your fstab to include the drive partition for windows.

I don't know how to do that!
is there an easy way to describe how to do that! or a link to were they explain it ??

We know you have none of this, that's why we told you to put:

/dev/hda(whichever drive it is) /windows/C vfat(or ntfs) noatime,user


In your /etc/fstab file.

hda is IDE0/primary
hdb is IDE0/secondary
hdc is IDE1/primary
hdd is IDE1/secondary

Just put the entry in.

Thoreau,
love your location!

don't forget the 0 0 at the end of that line (don't want to be checking that filesystem...)

So this is how my /etc/fstab looks like :

/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda /windows/C ntfs noatime,user 0 0


now, i can see Windows (/dec/hda) under Devices menu but this is what i get when i click on it:

An error occurred while loading drives:/hda.desktop:
The file or folder /windows/C does not exist.


!!!
:newbie:

mkdir /windows/C would probably be a help.

You need to create a mount point. /mnt/windows/C

/windows/C/ is right for this fstab. If you want to be "correct" the changing the fstab entry to read /mnt/windows/C/ and creating /mnt/windows/C/ would be the way to go. It's your hard drive. Do whichever you want. :)

First of all, thank you very much for trying to help. i am very very new to this. So, sorry if i look really stupid!
so this is how it looks like now:

/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda /mnt/windows/C/ ntfs noatime,user 0 0


but i don't see anything under the "devices" menu

Do you have the directory /mnt/windows/C created? You'll have to do it as root (the admin user) of course.

/mnt was there, but windows/C wasn't.
so i created:

/mnt/windows/C and it's emty

If you haven't rebooted, then you've not mounted it. Try, as root, and see if it'll show for you. It should with the fstab.