Accessing windows partitions in RH9

DesyphER · 02-25-2005, 06:26 AM

Hey guys,

I´ve just installed RH9 because of all the problems i have been experiencing with other Distroś, I find RH9 best until the GUI installer for the nvidia drivers are released. Anywh0o... How can i access my windows partitions via RH9?

overlord73 · 02-25-2005, 06:36 AM

just edit /etc/fstab and mount them.

vfat - read/write
and ntfs only read!

DesyphER · 02-25-2005, 06:59 AM

/dev/hda6 /home/desypher/window ntfs defaults 0 0

just like that yeah?

overlord73 · 02-25-2005, 07:41 AM

yo! :-)

doralsoral · 02-25-2005, 08:26 AM

/dev/hda5 /home/frenchy/winblows vfat umask=000 0 0

This is what mine looks like. of course your mount point will be different and probably the device too. If you are trying to access ntfs partition make fs ntfs but dont expect to be able to write to it. thats what the umask part is for although you may want to be more strict with yours. btw vfat is what ou would use if its fat32

DesyphER · 02-25-2005, 05:07 PM

It's NTFS... i won't be able to access them?

What up overlord? :P

vincebs · 02-25-2005, 06:31 PM

Linux can read NTFS partitions but you won't be able to make any changes* to your files. I am not sure whether Red Hat 9 has NTFS support built-in. If not, you'll have to download the kernel from kernel.org and recompile it with NTFS support.

*There is a limited NTFS driver, but you can only make changes to text files and the file size has to stay the same.

DesyphER · 02-26-2005, 02:49 AM

Yeah i won't need write access, Just read. I really need to install them games and test out cedega.

anindyanuri · 02-26-2005, 05:04 AM

Have you finished the job, man?
Regards

doralsoral · 02-26-2005, 05:21 PM

you dont need to recompile the kernel there is an rpm for ntfs support i dont remember where to get it though. just google for it.

idefinehell · 02-26-2005, 10:56 PM

u can add ntfs support to the kernel by compiling rpm u can get from
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
It has all the instructions 2 start with :-)

DesyphER · 02-28-2005, 01:45 AM

Ive tried doing it. I downloaded the rpm, (Thanks idefinehell) But i cant seem too install the rpm. I am not sure what is going on usually i just double click it and it will begin the installation. But now fileroller opens it. I don´t want to view it i want to install it.

DesyphER · 02-28-2005, 01:46 AM

Oh which RPM should i download of there. I have a P4 with hypherthreading so linux thinks i have two proccessors. I really have one.

overlord73 · 02-28-2005, 06:37 AM

dload it and install with
rpm -ihv rpmname!

DesyphER · 02-28-2005, 03:52 PM

overlord> i know that but i have one proccessor linux thinks i have two due to my CPU hyperthreading. So i don´t know if i should download the SMP (Mutli proccessor) or the single proccessor RPM.