Linking Knoppix with windows

**Joutei** · 04-01-2003, 08:25 PM

How can I link those two system so that knoppix will see windows partitions?

**IoN_PuLse** · 04-02-2003, 02:05 AM

Knoppix can see windows partitions. Even NTFS ones!

I have no idea what you mean by "linking" though.

**aay** · 04-02-2003, 06:22 AM

I agree with IoN_PuLse. Are you trying to mount a partition off a local hard drive? Are you trying to access windows over a network? Please explain.

**Joutei** · 04-02-2003, 06:47 PM

My problem is that knoppix should automaticly (i think) find windows partitons and place shortcuts to them on desktop, but in my case he haven`t found them. Also the cdrom isn`t accesible. How can i make them active (or something) that knoppix will see them. Thanks for quick replying to my problem. (sorry for my english)

**IoN_PuLse** · 04-02-2003, 07:10 PM

Well it is supposed to, but how old is the system you are trying to use it with? Are your drives hooked up through IDE?

**Joutei** · 04-03-2003, 04:53 PM

I`m using knoppix 3.1 and windows me. There both on the same hdd. The windows is installed on fat32 partition and knoppix on ext2 and i`m trying to acces fat32 partitions.

**rickenbacherus** · 04-03-2003, 05:03 PM

Ah - you have done an installation to your hard drive and now the familiar desktop icons are no longer there. As root run cfdisk -

su
<password>
cfdisk /dev/hda (change 'hda' to whichever hard drive you wish to see).
Once you see your partitions you just need to mount them, here's an example:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/win

I have no idea what mount points you have - you can see them like this:

cd /mnt
ls

I have no use for desktop icons myself but you can create them if you like. You'll likely need to edit your fstab but to find out what partitions are already mounted look at /etc/mtab.

**IoN_PuLse** · 04-03-2003, 07:57 PM

Ah, I thought you were booting from the CD

That reminds me, I should probably mount my fat32 partition on my drive that has knoppix installed....I didn't even miss it

**rickenbacherus** · 04-03-2003, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by IoN_PuLse

That reminds me, I should probably mount my fat32 partition on my drive that has knoppix installed....I didn't even miss it

right on

**Joutei** · 04-06-2003, 03:45 PM

Thanks, that is what I had in mind but I have another question. When I mount a partition it effects only this session. How to make a partition mounted automatically after every boot? How to mount a CDROM and floppy disk?