I have two drives, 80GB ide and 80GB S-ata.
I have GAG installed on the ide drivewhich is set to boot first and I
can select Linux(ide drive) or Windoze(SATA).
If I select Linux, I can select Knoppix or Fedora from GRUB.
With Knoppix I can use the SATA drive for files I may want to load into
GIMP, OpenOffice etc. but can't access the Fedora partition.
With Fedora, I can't find the KNoppix partition or the whole of the SATA
drive.
How can I get Fedora to see (and use) all of these partitions??

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PhilB wrote:
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> How can I get Fedora to see (and use) all of these partitions??

What do you mean by see?? have you tried mounting them?

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decrepit > wrote:
> PhilB wrote:
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> What do you mean by see?? have you tried mounting them?

What do I mount? Where do I look (what settings)?

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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:44:18 +0000, PhilB wrote:

> decrepit > wrote: 
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> What do I mount? Where do I look (what settings)?

The easiest way is to copy the entries from /etc/fstab for each
distribution into the other's /etc/fstab (leaving out duplicates of
course). For the root of the other distro just create a mount mount with
the distro's name, for example /fc4, and use it for the partition name in
/etc/fstab. Another way to do this is to use webmin. Webmin has a pretty
good partition manager which sees all of the partitions and allows you to
add the partitions to /etc/fstab.

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> What do I mount? Where do I look (what settings)?
OK try this, /sbin/fdisk -l


this is what I get on this system.

# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         973     7815591    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2             974         986      104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3             987        2261    10241437+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            2262        4865    20916630    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2262        2388     1020096   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6            2389        4865    19896471    b  W95 FAT32

create a directory for the ones you want to mount, I've put mine in /mnt
You can then manually mount each partiton, (read, man mount) or set up
/etc/fstab to mount them automatically

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Ta, I used Webmin and now can access all my XP stuff.


> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:44:18 +0000, PhilB wrote:
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> 
>
>
> The easiest way is to copy the entries from /etc/fstab for each
> distribution into the other's /etc/fstab (leaving out duplicates of
> course). For the root of the other distro just create a mount mount with
> the distro's name, for example /fc4, and use it for the partition name in
> /etc/fstab. Another way to do this is to use webmin. Webmin has a pretty
> good partition manager which sees all of the partitions and allows you to
> add the partitions to /etc/fstab.
>
>

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