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[ngotranthuy]

Dear all
I installed Puppy into my harddisk and dual boot with windows ME. But I cannot mount windows partitions. Please help me!

My fstab is:
/dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/win_c /mnt/win_c vfat umask=000 0 0
/dev/win_d /mnt/win_d vfat umask=000 0 0
/dev/win_e /mnt/win_e vfat umask=000 0 0

Thanks for your help.

[Lobster]

open ROX

click the triangle top left
open mnt
open home

any good?

[Lobster]

. . . or how about

start menu (that is the icon bottom right with a dog)
utilitiies
mount/unmount

any luck with that?

[Lobster]

and here is what Flash says:

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/MounTing

Thanks for asking

[ngotranthuy]

Thank a lot.

[ngotranthuy]

1. Could you tell me how to mount automaticly the window paftitions when I boot on to Puppy Linux?
2. Puppy Linux run without swap partition?

[Bruce B]

There are many ways to do this. I will share my procedure with you. First run 'probepart', to see exactly where your windows partitions are.

I like mount points like /mnt/hda1, so I make them in rc.local

In /etc/rc.d/rc.local I put commands like this:

mkdir /mnt/hda1
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

Also, I umount all the partitions I mounted in rc.local before rebooting, I use a script file for this.

The script could be like this:

#!/bin/sh
umount /mnt/hda1
umount /mnt/hda5
umount /mnt/hda6

Also, everything the others say is true. It is just that there are many ways to do the same thing with computers.

[Jesse]

Hi ngotranthuy,

you almost have your /etc/fstab file correct, just have to change these lines:

/dev/win_c /mnt/win_c vfat umask=000 0 0
/dev/win_d /mnt/win_d vfat umask=000 0 0
/dev/win_e /mnt/win_e vfat umask=000 0 0

the first parameter e.g. /dev/win_c is not right for your hardware, linux has different naming scheme for hard disk(s) and partitions, than what windows uses.

/dev is a directory that stores one file per device (usually)
/dev/hd is a prefix for IDE hard disks
/dev/hda (primary master hard disk)
/dev/hdb (primary slave hard disk)
/dev/hdc (secondary master hard disk)
/dev/hdd (secondary slave hard disk)

/dev/hda1 (primary master hard disk, first partition where files are kept)

You want to replace "/dev/win_c" with something like "/dev/hda1"

If you run the probepart program, click Start->Run->Rxvt terminal
and type in " probepart " you will see a list of devices that Puppy has found, this will give you a good idea of correct device name to put in /etc/fstab file.

Hope this helps.

Jesse

[ngotranthuy]

I corrected the mistake. Thanks for your support.