Dual Boot Sytem

[JimH]

Oops, I meant mounting the fat drive as write mode.

Add what to the FAQ, this question about getting a fat drive mounted...that would be a good place for the survival guide and the OMP...or are you talking about that your the resident guru, you want that listed in the FAQ? :

Aragorn

[JimH]

Hi,

A quick correction for everything to work right the /etc/fstab entry should read:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat auto,gid=501,umask=007 1 2

[mrkeef]

Before I was only confused... now I'm bewildered!

I tried what Aragorn suggested. There was a slight (2 hours) delay as I inadvertently modified the LABEL line in fstab... i deleted the first L which messed things up slightly. Have you ever tried to edit a file when linux insists it a "read-only" file system... nothing convinced it otherwise. We're over that now.

Aragorn your method didn't work. I still cannot write to the win partition. Everyhthing is as you suggested.

Jim, I tried your method but groupadd does not work: "command not found."

Since security is not a big deal, I might put umask=0.

Now... do I put that in the line that Aragorn said to delete from fstab or in the line that you said to put in rc.local? If the former do I delete the line from rc.local?

[JimH]

Hi,

Did you login as the root user first or did you just su root? If you su root, then you have to use the full path, ie. /usr/sbin/groupadd. Programs in /sbin or /usr/sbin are NOT in the path of a regular user, if you su root then you must include the full path.

[paradox]

Strange that my method didn't work, that is what I use on my system and it works just fine...oh well...

Aragorn

[mrkeef]

SUCCESS! ;D

I followed Jim's advice, slightly modified... after logging on as root and not using su

There wasn't any point in adding another group when I'm already in my own user group. I put gid=500 (the id of my group) into the line in /etc/fstab rebooted and everything is working as it should.

Thanks for all your help. ;D

[JimH]

GREAT! ;D

Glad you have working.

[paradox]

Cool! Sorry my advice didn't help, but I am glad JimH was here to help ya!

Aragorn

[mrkeef]

Hi! I've discovered a new problem with my permissions. Everthing has been working OK, except now I'm trying to use wine to run some windows apps.

Wine works OK as long as the app doesn't want to write to the windows partition... then it can't, presumably becasue it's working as wine and not as me!

The app. I really want to get going is Quicken. I have copied it to my Linux partition to try and get around the problem, but naturally, it want to write to the windows partition.

Any ideas about how to make my Windows files accessible to wine? Do I need to edit /etc/fstab again?

THanks

Keith

[mrkeef]

This is the exact error message I get:

Couldn't set file attributes for existing file /mnt/win/....
Check permissions or set VFAT "quiet" mount flag

I've checker permissions... logged on as root and set chmod 777 recursively on that directory, but it didn't work. What's the other bit and how do I do it?