On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:25:28 -0000
"Netsonic" <netsonic [at] blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm on a little bit of a buzz at the moment :O)
>
> After trawling through a dozen or so distro's I've finally found one that
> actually works on my hardware 100%, which is Redhat 8.0
>
> I had it on disk from when it was first released, but for some reason it
> didnt seem to work so well when I tried it back then.
>
> I did a clean install a couple of days ago, left it running for a few hours
> to download all the updates from Redhat, and then downloaded a couple of
> extras like the Java VM from Sun, Opera and a modem driver that picked up my
> modem perfectly first time. Ive just been setting up VMware tonight and the
> M$ stuff installed inside of that runs just as fast as it did under its own
> steam!
>
> KDE seems to have improved no end since I last tried to use it seriously.
> The themes and the whole appearance of it are just sooo much nicer than M$
> stuff IMO. Im just waiting for KDE 3.1 to be officially added to the Redhat
> update list, which there site says should be in the next 4-5 days.
>
> The default driver for my video card (Radeon 8500) installed straight away
> and has given me the full capabilities I need from the card, which is
> 1600x1200 running at 100 Hz in 24 bit color. KDE looks absolutely crisp on
> that :)
>
> In fact, the only thing I havent really tried using so far is infra-red,
> which i normally use to organise my mobile and send text messages from the
> desktop when Im at home. If anybody has any experience of using infra-red
> under Redhat, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
>
> So far, my only (minor) complaint would be about the menus. They look fab
> under KDE, but they just have absolutely no apparent organisation at all.
> There are configuration tools all over the place, and although the menu
> editor is very easy to use, for me personally, it lacks the configuration
> options I would have liked (Or maybe they are there hidden away somewhere,
> and I just haven't found them yet!).
>
> Assuming it carries on working as it has so far, I would expect to be
> migrating across to it permanently within the next week or so.
>
> Before I can do that though, I do have a large number of mp3's (around 5000
> or so) which I need to be able to read from an NTFS formatted disk, copy
> across, and then reformat the disk with Redhat. I know the Redhat site
> mentions something about read-only NTFS support, but I can't seem to find it
> right now. I've had a look at the services, and been through all the
> software package lists.
>
> I'd be most appreciative if anybody could point me in the right direction
> for setting up the NTFS access properly.
>
> Steve <=== Happy-Chappy!
>
>
>
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> GNU the choice of a complete generation.
NTFS support is not in the form of a package or service, but is provided
as a filesystem in the kernel. If you have NTFS support compiled into the
kernel either statically or as a module, you should be able to mount your
NTFS partition as follows:
mount -t ntfs /dev/{partition} {mount-point}
You will need to do this as root. If you need user access, add '-o user' (without
quotes) after ntfs. The {partition} should be replaced with your NTFS partition, which
will be of the form hdxy, if your hard drive is IDE, or sdxy if your hard drive is SCSI.
The x will be a letter or series of letters starting with a for the first hard disc,
and y will be the partition number. For example, if the NTFS partition was on your
first IDE hard disc, the master on the first channel, on the second partition, the
partition would be hda2. For IDE discs, a is master on the first channel, b is slave
on the first channel, c is master on the second channel, and d is slave on the first
channel.
If you're not sure of the partition number, load up
fdisk with the hard disc (i.e. fdisk /dev/hda for that above), and then enter p
to see a list of partitions. You will need to be root to do this too. q wll quit fdisk.
The mount-point is anywhere on your filesystem where you want the contents to appear. This
is usually a directory under /mnt (you'll probably find your cdrom mounted under /mnt/cdrom
or similiar).
As a final example, if I wanted to mount my NTFS partition on the second partition of my first
IDE disk (see above) at /mnt/windoze, I would run the following as root:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/windoze
If users also need to access this, you'll need to do:
mount -t ntfs -o user /dev/hda2 /mnt/windoze.
Make sure you create the directory you mount to first (mkdir /mnt/windoze will do it in the above
example).
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