SlackwareThis Forum is for the discussion of Slackware Linux.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
Distribution: Slackware: in progress, Mandrake 9.2, Libranet, Vector
Posts: 373
Rep:
Dualbooting Slack/XP
GRRRR.... Just installed slack last night. I have a windows partition on this mechine which is used by my parents. I don't think slack detected or mounted the NTFS partition. How do I mount that partition at the boot time and add an entry to lilo.conf for windows XP which is on hda1. I know how to add for fat partitions, but not sure cauz this is a ntfs partition.
btw, is there any way to restore lilo on mbr without having to reinstll the distro, if it was overwritten by windows, because I'm going to have to reformat my windows partition (as usual every few months).
Distribution: Slackware: in progress, Mandrake 9.2, Libranet, Vector
Posts: 373
Original Poster
Rep:
Ya I think that'll work. This look like normal line from a fstab file. But can't figure out what does this do "gid=wheel". I found some examples by google too. But never seen that line.
When I had mandrake before, it was crazy. It had some lines of scripts about supermount and some weard stuff.
If the mbr overwritten by xp, you can try to boot with slack installation disk, read the instruction, pass the argument at boot promt as shown on the screen, after that u can edit ur lilo ( if there's any changes) and then /sbin/lilo.
Hope this works !!
Distribution: Slackware: in progress, Mandrake 9.2, Libranet, Vector
Posts: 373
Original Poster
Rep:
Alright everyone, thanks for replying. As of now, I dont think windows overwriting mbr would be a matter cauz, at this point the whole (windows) system is down (as usual). So I'm going have to install windows before Slack to make sure that I won't run into other problems
Distribution: Slackware: in progress, Mandrake 9.2, Libranet, Vector
Posts: 373
Original Poster
Rep:
I got it working I just installed slack added "/dev/hda1/ /mnt/win-c ntfs auto, umask=000 0 0" to fstab and added
label = "WinXP"
table = /dev/hda
root = /dev/hda1
to lilo.conf. It worked. Thanks everyone who helped me with this
quick question. im also installing slack, but my linux partition comes before the ntfs partition. slack install doesnt recognize the ntfs and how do i know which /dev/hda the ntfs partition is?
my hard drive is formatted
linux ext2
linux swap
c: NTFS partition (win xp)
d: FAT32 partition
to install lilo again... just type liloconf or liloconfig
or boot with the install cd until your login as root:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt #assuming your hda1 is /
then type liloconfig
Distribution: Slackware: in progress, Mandrake 9.2, Libranet, Vector
Posts: 373
Original Poster
Rep:
Quote:
Originally posted by centr0 quick question. im also installing slack, but my linux partition comes before the ntfs partition. slack install doesnt recognize the ntfs and how do i know which /dev/hda the ntfs partition is?
my hard drive is formatted
linux ext2
linux swap
c: NTFS partition (win xp)
d: FAT32 partition
If your hard drive is in that order, I guess your ntfs partition is hda3. I could be wrong here, this is just a guess. Run cfdisk and look at your partition table.
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.