Well am a beginner in linux and know nothing much about it.
I have the fedora core 5 version.
I basically want to know how to mount windows using linux.
I would be obliged if you could tell me a link for linux commands.
Hi,
To mount your windows partition under Linux you have to know the windows partition numbers (may be you can do "fdisk /dev/hdx").
Then try "mount -t vfat /dev/hdx# <mount-dir>" or "mount -t ntfs /dev/hdx# <mount-dir>". The '-t' option is most often not necessary. To mount NTFS partitions you should have special kernel module.
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i think it is most efficient release of ubuntu and also an edgy distro.it is much easier to install even easier than win xp. it automatically mounts windows partitions to your desktop.so u do nothing.
Hi,
If you want to install Linux on your system you can get the book,
Linux for Beginners from Wrox Publication.
It will solve all your queries related to installlation of Linux and further operation.
Apart from that you will also get Linux Fedora 9 CD's with the books.
I am not sure whether the book is on EDA Board or not.
first you should make a directory
mkdir /mnt/win
then mount your windows partition using
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
(if it is on c: drive)
you can unmount using
umount /mnt/win
you can even make it automount at startup,just add following to your /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults 0 0
I dont think that the latest Linux distro could not detect ntfs well. By the way, the latest linux distro supports either write and read from ntfs partition. ref: linux-ntfs.sf.net
Even today u can recover, resize and repartition ur hd even it is in ntfs.
i recomend that when you install linux, create a FAT32 partition and then you can share information between windows and linux without problem, and for mount them go to /etc/fstab and edit it for mount them automatically on /mnt or /media you can choose, i guess. or if you put them li noauto just use the mount command.
it then displays me all the partitions of my hard drive.
then point out the partition u want to mount. then make a folder in /media directory where u want to mount partition. let u created a folder winxp and want to mount partition hda1 . then do this