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Thread ID: 76635 2007-02-07 22:17:00 Ubuntu question John H (8) Press F1
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523572 2007-02-07 22:17:00 Hi

I am familiar with Xandros, but thought I would try out Ubuntu, given its favourable reviews.

I haven't installed it - just booted from the CD I burned from a downloaded image file. It looks good so far.

One thing that puzzles me - with Xandros you get to see all the files on the other partitions, so you can copy files over from Windoze partitions to the Xandros home directory. I cannot see the other partitions when I boot from the Ubuntu CD - is that only a function of booting from the CD?

Can someone who has installed Ubuntu tell me whether you can access the Windoze partitions? Thank you. 		John H (8)
523573 2007-02-07 22:37:00 I haven't used Ubuntu for a while but you should be able to view them using the mount command

once installed you can set it to automatically mount the partitions at startup, you will need to edit your fstab file (sorry it's been a whil)e

try http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

as this question has been asked and answered many times there

edit try this link
www.cyberciti.biz 		Morgenmuffel (187)
523574 2007-02-08 00:59:00 Thanks Nigel. That looks the go. It seems that Xandros spoils you because mounting the Windows partitions is automatic from the start. However, everyone seems to rave about Ubuntu, so there must be something better to it than just being free (unlike Xandros)!

Thanks again.
John 		John H (8)
523575 2007-02-08 02:00:00 You can mount extra partitions via the GUI in K/Ubuntu.
I use Kubuntu but Ubuntu will be similar
In the System Settings there is a " Disk & File systems" manager.
You will need to be in "Administrator" mode.
Click on the partition you want to mount
Kubuntu has a 'NEW" button to create a mount point.
In the dialog that pops up chose the file system type, mount point ( such as /media/win-c )
Assign permissions, and check the "enable at startup"

hope this helps 		racepics (7812)
523576 2007-02-08 02:23:00 You can mount extra partitions via the GUI in K/Ubuntu.
I use Kubuntu but Ubuntu will be similar
In the System Settings there is a " Disk & File systems" manager.
You will need to be in "Administrator" mode.
Click on the partition you want to mount
Kubuntu has a 'NEW" button to create a mount point.
In the dialog that pops up chose the file system type, mount point ( such as /media/win-c )
Assign permissions, and check the "enable at startup"

hope this helps

Thanks racepics. It seems clear that to do this, I have to install ubuntu rather than doing what I am doing now, which is to boot from the CD. I am sure that I didn't find the option to logon as administrator doing it from the CD, but will check. Thanks again. 		John H (8)
523577 2007-02-08 03:17:00 Thanks racepics. It seems clear that to do this, I have to install ubuntu rather than doing what I am doing now, which is to boot from the CD. I am sure that I didn't find the option to logon as administrator doing it from the CD, but will check. Thanks again.

If your using the CD as "live CD" you dont need to be admin.
( I use it this way to salvage files from Windoze PC's that dont run )
It will let you access ( but not write to ) those Fat32 or NTFS drives. 		racepics (7812)
523578 2007-02-08 03:50:00 A little googling turned up this howto:
jclark.org 		racepics (7812)
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