n00b needs help.
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Topic: n00b needs help.
started by: dancrew32
Posted by dancrew32 on Dec. 22 2005,02:16
Hey there linux users. Proud to say i finally got to use it today and i'm loving it. I'm having one problem though...I'm booting from the DSL cd and everything loads fine, but i can't access my main harddrive, nor do i have any clue how to. I'm familiar with blackbox and flux so i'm not too retarded. If someone could show me how to access files on my c:\ drive, it would be much appreciated.
Note: I run windows xp normally and don't want to overwrite or erase anything on this c:\ drive.
it basically thinks the highest part of my cdrom is the furthest back it can go... doesn't even think i have a hd
Posted by dancrew32 on Dec. 22 2005,09:44
well i figured out the problem i think... my sata drive isn't supported in the lastest version of DSL, which major sucks. i'm gonna go buy a cheap ide drive tomorrow and boot on it..
Posted by doobit on Dec. 22 2005,14:49
It is supported. That's one of the reasons the developers went with the 2.4.31 kernel. You need to boot with sata as a boot option.
Posted by vees on Dec. 22 2005,16:41
| Quote (dancrew32 @ Dec. 21 2005,21:16) |
| Hey there linux users. Proud to say i finally got to use it today and i'm loving it. I'm having one problem though... I'm booting from the DSL cd and everything loads fine, but i can't access my main harddrive, nor do i have any clue how to. I'm familiar with blackbox and flux so i'm not too retarded. If someone could show me how to access files on my c:\ drive, it would be much appreciated. Note: I run windows xp normally and don't want to overwrite or erase anything on this c:\ drive. it basically thinks the highest part of my cdrom is the furthest back it can go... doesn't even think i have a hd |
what do you get when you try:
cat /etc/fstab
and
mount
Posted by dancrew32 on Dec. 22 2005,21:35
yeah i tried booting up with sata, and 3 drive partitions did appear for my sata drive, but i still can't access the contents of the drives... grr.. any ideas?
Posted by doobit on Dec. 22 2005,21:58
NTFS cannot be written to with DSL. What file format is your SATA?
Posted by dancrew32 on Dec. 23 2005,10:56
yeah its ntfs... i can only write to a fat32 drive?.. im gettin an extra ide drive tomorrow and hopefully installing dsl to it.. when i do that, is there a way to write to it?
Posted by humpty on Dec. 23 2005,14:41
you just write normally with fat32, i have no trouble with fat32 except for once when copying files from linux to fat32, the directory names would not let the first letter capitalzed and kept lower'ing them.
But I have not been able to reproduce that since then, which sorta annoys me 
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Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 27 2005,18:08
Did you "Mount" the newly appeared partitions?Open up emelfm and go to the /mnt folder
Then right-click on one like say "sda1" for example and then choose "Mount" from the context menu.