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Topic: Accessing Windows Hard Drive, For a complete and utter n00b

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Eightball

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Posted: April 22 2006,16:39

Righto. I made the DSL CD and got it to run on my laptop and everything.

All I know how to do is start the games.

I was under the impression that I could access the contents of my hard drive from DSL on the CD. How would I go about doing that? Can I delete things from the HD while in DSL?

I'm trying to delete this 10 GB movie file I accidentally created while fooling around with Virtual Dub, a video-editing program. But whenever I try to delete it, it says I can't access it because its in use. But NO program is using it that I can see from the task manager.

piccolo

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Posted: April 22 2006,17:14

1. Boot DSL and launch Emelfm (click on icon on desktop).

2. Emelfm have two windows. On any from the two windows, browser inside /mnt folder (/mnt it is on top-level). There are a folder, frequently is the /hda1 folder (but can be different, for example: hda2, hda3...hdaN) where you must do this:
If hda1, select hda1 folder and click on rightbutton, and click on "mount". So /mnt/hda1 folder literally became the Windows partition present on you hard disk and you can browser it, read it and write it from DSL.
Therefore after do "mount" you can browser using Emelfm to Windows directory where you have the file and delete it.

NOTE I: If you do not understand the mount concept, read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_point

NOTE II: If you not know how was labeled by DSL your Windows partition, try mount each /hd folder and browser inside. In some hd folder you it will find.

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Eightball

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Posted: April 22 2006,19:55

Cool! I've got it mounted. Thanks.

However, I'm running into more problems.

I'd tried to delete the file but I got an error message. It said:

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rm: unable to stat <file location>: value too large for defined data type.

I then tried to rename it for kicks and got:

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rm: unable to rename <file location>: read-only file system

How do I make a mount writable? And what's up with that data type error? Is it because the file is larger than DSL?

jonathanm

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Posted: April 22 2006,20:08

hi, trying to mount whilst in embedded system and it says that it is already mounted on /KNOPPIX. However, this is just a replica of my root. How do i get my windows drive up and mounted?