Mandrake 9.0 Linux ! [1]

[Pirate]

I installed it (all options were ticked ) 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 ?

[siyan]

Did you mount them properly?

Hit run xterm and type man mount [enter]

[Pirate]

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 .... . Fortunately , I've found something helpful . Mandrake Control Center 9.0 . I click "Mount Points"------> Hard Drives--------> then found two tabs :

1-hdc
________________________________________________
: : :
: / : /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 because I had no idea what the hell these options ! So now , how am I going to do ?

[Cander]

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

[Pirate]

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

[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.

[siyan]

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

[Pirate]

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.

Thank you ! I'm able to browse everything .

[Pirate]

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

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

[siyan]

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

[Pirate]

Thanks all .

[parksie]

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

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

[siyan]

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

[parksie]

>:-)

[Pirate]

Ok , now another question , What is the safest way to partition (or mount , btw what does mount mean ?) 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 ?

[siyan]

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...

[Pirate]

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

[siyan]

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.

[Pirate]

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

Well ...Thanks siyan .