ead-only greif

Forum: HD Install
Topic: ead-only greif
started by: chickenman

Posted by chickenman on Oct. 15 2004,12:12

I have a HDD DSL install, i dual boot with windows, i have a hard drive for each operating system and my main files are stored on the 80gb windows is on. DSL insists on makeing this HDD read-only when I mount it, I suspect this comes from its Knoppix roots. Anyway, I have tryed editing fstab and changeing/removeing the "ro"'s from hda1 (thats the 80gb) but when I re-boot it get changed back.

I would also like hda1 to be auto mounted on boot, for this I would need to edit cron or something. I have no idea what to do (hence me posting in a forum), so ANY help would be appreciated.

thankyou.

Posted by caulktel on Oct. 15 2004,14:48

Hey Chickenman,

If you are running Windows XP on your 80 gig hard drive, that is why DSL is only allowing you read access. You should never write to a NTFS partition from another OS (unless you want Windows to crash). What you need to do is create a fat 32 partition on your 80 gig hard drive, then you will be able access it from either of your OS's. That is the way I do it and it works great. I should say you will be able to write and read to the fat 32 partition in either OS. As far as auto mounting the new partition, I'm not sure what to tell you to do as DSL creates your fstab every time you boot up. I just use the mountapp found in the tools section to mount my partitions as I need them.