[NCLUG] Ubunto 8.04 - autoinstall of XP partitions

[Ben West]

I think that being aware of a couple of caveats might be useful long-term:
ntfs has experimental write support right now -- at best, so you may have
some trouble if you intended to use the file system as a go-between
partition.  also -- and this maybe fixed -- I have had trouble mounting the
partition AND making it accessible to users -- this MAY be becuase I
configured the fstab myself and did it incorrectly, but ultimately, I had to
set the drive as being owned, and readable by a single user.  if there is a
ubuntu-povided tool for seting up drives, I'd almost ceratinly use that --
also, I've found that using WUBI for installation elevates a lot of those
problems...YRMV

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Goodman,Darrin <
Darrin.Goodman at colostate.edu> wrote:

> > Thank you for your suggestion.  Yes, I have used the Nautilus window
> > which shows all the drives, including the XP partitions.  Within GUI,
> > I am able to select each drive and choose  mount; the drive icon for
> > each partition then appears on the desktop.  When I go to command line,
> > I am not able to find the  mounted  XP partitions.  Perhaps I am not
> > looking in the proper directory.
>
> Bill, by default, unless you specify otherwise, Ubuntu mounts additional
> hard drives, partitions, and external USB drives to the /media directory.
>  Your partition might show up as something like /media/disk.
>
> > Using the above  mount  approach, will the partitions remain permanently
> > mounted, even after I logout?  Or will I have to repeat the procedure
> > each time I log in?
>
> You will have to do this each time you log in.  For me, it's not an issue;
> it's as easy as one click on an icon in Nautilus (in 8.04).  However, with
> previous versions of Ubuntu, or other Linux distros, I have always created a
> mount point, such as /mnt/hd1, and then mount the drive (or the partition in
> your case).  In order to get the drive or partition to automatically mount
> on boot, you might add some code to your /etc/fstab file that points to the
> drive, the mount point, and specifies the file system -- something like
> this:
> /dev/hdb5     /mnt/hd1     reiserfs
>
> - Darrin
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