On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 08:16 -0500, Bill Costlow wrote:
Hi,
Just switched to Core 4 from Mepis (a debian flavor) and everything (so far) works ok except one thing:
/dev/hda1 is a fat32 (XP) partition /dev/hda2 is my swap /dev/hda3 is ext3
opening up /dev/hda1 or /dev/dvd (using konqueror) gives me a dialog box asking what to associate that file with...associating the file with konqueror opens another konqueror session and gives me another associations dialog box.
The swap partition is not supposed to be accessed like that (i.e. be browsed) You don't access partitions firectly, to access your XP partition you first need to mount it. It is probable that you have your system already configured, but to be sure on a terminal type the following command
mount
and see if your XP partition appears there. If it does, then you can access your partition simply by accessing the directory where it is mounted, for example
dabicho@mokona ~ $ mount ... /dev/hda1 on /Windows type vfat (rw,umask=0002,gid=100)
... I access my windows partition simply by browsing to /Windows
if it does not, one way to configure it is appending a line like this to the file /etc/fstab with a simple text editor
/dev/hda1 /Windows vfat defaults,umask=0002,gid=100 0 0
(it is only one line, with fields separated by tabs or white spaces.) That line just tells the system that /dev/hda1 should be mounted to /Windows and its a vfat or fat32 partition and that it is automounted at boot time and some other access options, you can ignore the ',gid=100' part.)
next time you boot your system, it will automatically be mounted, but this time you just need to type this command in a termina, after saving /etc/fstab AND creating the /Windows directory
you create the /Windows directory either with the command mkdir /Windows from a terminal, or with your file browser, and
mount /Windows
to have the partition mounted, after which you can access it like any other directory.
I am not aware of a gui utility to do the same job, but maybe there is one.
Hope that helps.