Few questions

By changing the disk to a master I now get a different output when running fdisk -l

jon@Easyrider:~ $ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdb: 6448 MB, 6448619520 bytes
15 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 = 483840 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 12703 6002136 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 12704 13328 295312+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 12704 13328 295281 82 Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdc: 20.4 GB, 20419854336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 2482 19936633+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Notice the 20 gig towards the end shows up.
 
Right, you should be able to mount it now with:

mount -t ntfs -o umask=0222 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/winxp

I would always recommend putting optical drives on their own IDE channel, e.g. with your current setup I would place both IDE hardrives on the primary IDE channel and the CD drive on the secondary IDE channel master. If you so this though, it would probably screw XP up. You would also have to adjust your fstab accordingly or else it would not be able to find your root partition. In other words, if this works, leave it alone :)
 
Still a no.
I'll try and put the drives on the same IDE in a bit. Thanks J!
 
You got the incorrect filesystem type error again when you tried to mount /dev/hdc1?
 
Just to get this straight in my head:

IDE Channel 1:
Master: CD Rom
Slave: 6 GB WD

IDE Channel 2:
Master: <none>
Slave: Maxtor 20 GB.

Switch it around to:

IDE Channel 1:
Master: 20 GB Maxtor
Slave: 6 GB WD

IDE Channel 2:
Master: CD Rom.
 
LordOfLA said:
for a in `ls /dev/hdb*`; do mount -t ntfs $$a /mnt/winxp ; done ;

should mount something :) then just type mount to see what it did mount.

you made a typo, please $$a with $a and it will work as you advertise.
 
NetRyder said:
You got the incorrect filesystem type error again when you tried to mount /dev/hdc1?
Yes I did.
X-Istence I will give it a shot.
 
X-Istence said:
Just to get this straight in my head:

IDE Channel 1:
Master: CD Rom
Slave: 6 GB WD

IDE Channel 2:
Master: <none>
Slave: Maxtor 20 GB.

Switch it around to:

IDE Channel 1:
Master: 20 GB Maxtor
Slave: 6 GB WD

IDE Channel 2:
Master: CD Rom.

when I did this Linux had a heart attack!
here is what I have done this morning.
IDE1
CD Drive = Master
HDD = Slave
IDE2
CD Drive = Master
HDD (NTFS) = Slave

Now my other drive (XP) is completely out of the case. Should I maybe think about setting Linux up on that drive so it detects everything on the install? Because I still can't get the drive to mount and when I look it up in device manager the string says "/dev/hdd" so I try and mount that and it says "jon@Easyrider:~ $ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd /mnt/winxp
mount: /dev/hdd already mounted or /mnt/winxp busy"

any ideas?
 
type "mount" if /dev/hdd is allready mounted it should tell you where it has been mounted.
 
It doesn't tell me where...

/dev/hdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

I added it to the fstab and upon reboot I didn't receive any errors. So apparently it mounted but where? It's not in the winxp directory I created.
 
ya baby! after fooling around today and swapping the drives around I finally got!
*jumps for joy*
 
oh ya next questions...
how can I create a shortcut to it on my desktop as well as the trash shortcut?

btw...thank you all! reps coming soon for everyone who tried to help me :)
 
What desktop enviroment are you using?
 
Ubuntu is gnome

You can open it in nautilas, go to where you mounted it, right click, hit make alias, and i think it should ask you where to make it.

If not, just right click and drag and drop on the desktop, and it should give you a context menu.

Note: I am not at home, so i can't test it. All my mounted drivers show up in My Computer which is on my desktop.
 
i think to be able to change the drive stuff you have to be logged on as super user (or the root user) at the comand line type su and then type in the password and i think it should let you change settings
 
does gnome kinda look like mac? coz i felt like i was on a mac when i used ubuntu
 
FishBoy said:
does gnome kinda look like mac? coz i felt like i was on a mac when i used ubuntu
Neither KDE or GNOME really give you a Mac feeling at all. :p However KDE (last I tried it) is a bit more Windows friendly.
 
Found this CD when cleaning today. Might have to give it a go
 

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