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Old 04-10-2005, 08:29 AM   #1
Tom Morris
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Ubuntu and XP drive mounting


I have just installed Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog (and apt-get'd kubuntu-desktop - I had an Ubuntu ISO that I got from Linux Magazine) on my brothers PC. I have managed to set up GRUB properly so he can dual boot between XP and Ubuntu. Here's the problem though. His hard drives are laid out as follows.

13Gb IDE FAT32 (/dev/hda1) contains his Windows XP install and a fair few Windows apps.
120Gb SATA NTFS (/dev/sdb1) contains his Windows stuff - games, applications, music etc. "My Documents" / Windows ~ stuff.
200Gb SATA is split in to two partitions: 147Gb for Windows and 50Gb for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu has installed pretty well.

Here are his /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab. I have tried to edit them, but without much luck. I would like to be able to mount all his Windows drives - NTFS and FAT on Linux. They all appear but I can't mount them.

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
1
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/windows vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sata1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/sata2 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
----
----
/dev/sda2 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev /.dev unknown rw,bind 0 0
none /dev tmpfs rw,size=5M,mode=0755 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
----

Any suggestions would be most welcome. I know a little bit about Linux and use Mandrake and OS X (and Windows, unfortunately).
 
Old 04-10-2005, 08:55 AM   #2
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Ubuntu guide

Have a look at this link. Under the windoz heading.
 
Old 04-10-2005, 10:11 AM   #3
Tom Morris
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Thanks. I've managed to mount one of the drives - the one with most of the important things on it. I don't know why the others aren't working though. I'll post some more details as and when I get them.
 
Old 04-10-2005, 11:30 AM   #4
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yes please post the errors and your fstab (if u changed it) and your partitions information (type: fdisk -l)
 
Old 04-10-2005, 07:30 PM   #5
Tom Morris
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All fixed. Thanks very much. Now I can just tackle doing the same thing in Mandrake. Thanks for the support!
 
  


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