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Accessing the hard drive
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January 21. 2008
Thanks
You have 2 possibilities :
Use an USB key as described hereUse your internal hard disk :
- Open a terminal, then mount, for example, the first partition of your first IDE internal idsk on /mnt directory by typing:
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
- Open a thunar window under root by
sudo thunar /mnt
- Use your hda1 disk
- After work, close thunar window
- Unmount hda1 partition by:
sudo umount /mnt
Beware about the 2nd operation : you are under root in thunar window thus you can do anything on your hard disk! We can not guarantee that will not cause damage to your disk.
Hello Franklin
Your instructions on the USB Key worked perfectly. No complaints there.
On using Thunar - that seems a kludge - the sudo unmount /mnt command does not work - I get a unrecognized command reply while in Terminal. I have to agree with the suggestion by Chris in one of the other posts that full ntfs support on boot would be very good especially for new users. What I have to resort to now is to boot into WINDOWS XP plug in my 4GB USB drive, copy all the music and music videos that I like to listen to then reboot the Vafeo home distro and then use VLC to play the audio and video files. This is in contrast where I had MEPIS 7.0 running before and could directly access the ntfs hard drive to run the same files. I have a dual boot system with two hard drives one strictly for windows xp and the other for linux with the grub boot installed.
Hi David,
I agree with you about inconvenience of this method.
We will add the feature that automounts ntfs partition at boot into the next vafeo version.I don't know if there's an error of typing, but for unmounting a partition, that must be
sudo umount /mnt and not sudo unmount /mnt
What responses do you obtain when using :
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt and
sudo thunar /mnt
Franklin N.
Previously David Hernandez wrote:
Hello Franklin
Your instructions on the USB Key worked perfectly. No complaints there.
On using Thunar - that seems a kludge - the sudo unmount /mnt command does not work - I get a unrecognized command reply while in Terminal. I have to agree with the suggestion by Chris in one of the other posts that full ntfs support on boot would be very good especially for new users. What I have to resort to now is to boot into WINDOWS XP plug in my 4GB USB drive, copy all the music and music videos that I like to listen to then reboot the Vafeo home distro and then use VLC to play the audio and video files. This is in contrast where I had MEPIS 7.0 running before and could directly access the ntfs hard drive to run the same files. I have a dual boot system with two hard drives one strictly for windows xp and the other for linux with the grub boot installed.
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