Mandrake 9.0 Linux ! [1]

I installed it (all options were ticked :D) and I'm very newbie . I'm sure I fu cked up my paritions but I'm pretending I didn't (I'll post that later) anyways , I can't seem to find my other paritions ? I could browse them though , when I ran Knoppix 3.2 off the cd some time ago . Any help plz ?

Did you mount them properly?

Hit run xterm and type man mount [enter]

That command doesn't work I think . I typed these :
man mount
mount
mount [enter]
different combinations , I maybe got it wrong but a newbie can do more idiotic things though ....:D . Fortunately , I've found something helpful . Mandrake Control Center 9.0 . I click "Mount Points"------> Hard Drives--------> then found two tabs :

1-hdc
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: : :
: / : /home :
:__________:_____________________________________:

2-hdd

it has five parts as follow (first two are empty)

/mnt/nt3 /mnt/winC2 /mnt/win_d2

When I installed it , I admit I was blind:eek: :D because I had no idea what the hell these options ! So now , how am I going to do ?:confused:

Those 3 should be your windows partitions. The nt3 is probably your c: drive.

Uh..I can't find any place to browse my parititions (I don't know where they are ) . that's the problem .:D

Are you using KDE?
If so just load up the File Browser thingy, forget where it is but I think it is one the desktp. And look for /mnt/blah blah blah

it works just like Windows Explorer.

Oh BTW, if its NTFS don't screw around too much...

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Originally posted by Cander
Are you using KDE?
If so just load up the File Browser thingy, forget where it is but I think it is one the desktp. And look for /mnt/blah blah blah
it works just like Windows Explorer.

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Thank you ! I'm able to browse everything .

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Originally posted by siyan
Oh BTW, if its NTFS don't screw around too much...

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I don't know even which partition linux is on . but what do you mean anyways ?

I just mean you should probably mount all NTFS partitions as read only.

Thanks all .

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Originally posted by siyan
I just mean you should probably mount all NTFS partitions as read only.

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You can only mount them read-only unless you grab the experimental writing code.

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Originally posted by parksie
You can only mount them read-only unless you grab the experimental writing code.

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:p

>:-)

Ok , now another question , What is the safest way to partition (or mount , btw what does mount mean :D?) linux partition : from windows where I can use partition magic OR when installation begins (which I'm afraid I can't do that) ? and also , can should linux run on primary partition or extended ?

You probably want Linux on the extended partition.

PM 7 doesn't support ext3 properly to the best of my knowledge. Just use it to create some free space, then create the partitions from the Mandrake installer.

BTW:

To partition generally refers to chopping up the physical drive into logical segments, or to work on partitions in whatever manner.

To mount means to 'activate' a partition within the OS. Makes it visible to programs and the file manager, etc...

One last question : what is the maximum size that linux can eat up (will 5gb be well enough)??

It can eat up a lot if you want it to...

5GB should be okay, however, be warned that on a 4GB disk I once ran out of what I presume was hard drive space (said something about "not enough room on the target path" or something...) while compiling Mozilla. Ack.

Fresh install too, with not very much on it.

I'll install just to try it out , I won't do heavy stuff since I'm not that expert .

Well ...Thanks siyan .:)