mounting & unmounting?
I just installed Slack 9.1 I am a newbie to Slack and I have used RH 9 for the last two months. I am trying to find where I am able to manage my drives(mounting & unmounting) also need to find out how to get them to automount( if I can)? :newbie:
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mount vs automount
There's a big difference between mounting and auto-mounting!
Because for enabling auto-mounting, you must patch the kernel and recompile it! But for mounting, you must know your drives and edit (as root) the file /etc/fstab . you must insert a line for cdrom: /dev/hdx /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 where /dev/hdx is: /dev/hda -> Drive is connected to Primary IDE as Master. /dev/hdb -> Drive is connected to Primary IDE as Slave. /dev/hda -> Drive is connected to Secondary IDE as Master. /dev/hda -> Drive is connected to Secondary IDE as Slave. Samething for Windows partition except you must specify the partition # after the drive (/dev/hda1 -> which is the first harddrive and second partition as partitionning start at 0!). The line would look like: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat auto,users,rw 0 0 NB: vfat is for FAT32 partition (as with Windows98). auto will mount the partition at bootup. users is for enabling access for users. rw = read and write enabled... If you want to mount a Windows XP/NT/2000..etc... parition, then you must replace vfat with ntfs and also the "rw" for "ro"... Because write access to your NTFS partition could damage-it! Another NB: you must create the directory in the /mnt before mounting something in it... Like doing mkdir /mnt/cdrom for the upper example of the cdrom... All this always under ROOT user!!!! ;) |
typo?
I think you made some typos here:
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Another question answered with out even asking... Thanks guys. :) You really make this too easy for us n00bs :)
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