Ok, I have just install Mandrake on a 20 Gig hard drive and this time with a ATI 128 16M card, but there’s just one thing I need to do, I need to see if there’s a way to enable Fat32 sharing by folder, also is it possable to add a hard drive partion with Fat32 after installation ? And does Linux use U-DMA ?
backwords my answer order is
U-DMA? never heard of it (not to say it isn’t useful somehow)
yes, mandrake works with fat32 partions
yes, you can “share” partitions, you need to install and setup samba (server). You will probably want to set up a samba client to (… or can konqueror be used for that alwright? samba://computername or something [ip?])
If you add the following to your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
and add the following to /mnt:
win_c
you will be able to access your windows drive. (I’m assuming your fat32 is hda1)
If you have other partitions that are fat32 you can add them also the same way only changing the sequence numbers according to your setup. Such as:
/dev/hdaX /mnt/win_X vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
where X is the partition number and the corresponding drive letter.
each partition should be added to /mnt also. Do all this as root.
It’s a simple system without having to setup Samba. You’ll have to adjust to the permissions in order to secure your computer.
Um, I want to share the linux hard drive with MS, Linux can access Windows just fine.
it isn’t exactly possible
if the format of the linux drive is ext2 (not reccomended in newer versions of linux, they suggest ext3 or another journaling file system) there is a sourceforge project to add read support to windows
turns out there are a few such projects, I have no idea what to reccomend
other than using a fat32 partition to share data between the operating systems.
Yes, I plan to use a fat32 partion, but I have to know that can I partion half the drive after installing Mandrake ?
your confusing
you can partion the drive while installing mandrake
and if you don’t partion all of the drive then you can partion the rest after
(possibly even during the windows installer…, I haven’t tried it)
though to be able to boot windows windows may need to be on the first partion, which means it needs to be installed first. (I forget how my partion setup is but I had to reformat the windows c partion (using not the linux tools) to get windows [98] to install onto it)
bleh, be more specific, then I can be more specfic about what I don’t know
I have windows installed on the main drive and mandrake installed on the slave drive, I want to have a partion on the slave drive so I can keep some files off the main drive and onto the slave drive. (Where Linux is installed) clear ?
Ok, I reinstall Linux this time with custom partion, it seem to be doing find until I formated the FAT32 partion, when it trys to start up, theres a promp that says “run level” Any suggestions ?
God damn it, no matter how I go about with this partion Linux becomes screwed up afterwards, even if I copy something, what the hell is going on, can’t mandrake make a window partion that can be formated and use by windows without screwing up ?
I think the problem is you are changing the master boot record AFTER the install. When you install linux on your slave drive leave the fat32 partition you created ALONE. You don’t have to reformat the entire drive to install linux. When it gives you the option to format the drive. select the fat32 and select not to format it. Then proceed with the install. In this way the MBR will be unaltered and will contain the fat32 partition. That’s just a guess shooting from the hip
bleh, and if you install windows after linux you will have to boot rescue mode to be able to get the bootloader (lilo probably, could be grub) installed again so that you can boot linux
I already tried it that way oxman, but as soon you try to copy something on it, the boot loader find some way to screw itself up.
Heh, I’m not going to comment on the partitioning madness going on here. :o
But, when you get it working you can enable DMA transfer and other options like this
hdparm -d 1 -c 1 -u 1 /dev/hda
assuming /dev/hda is your drive.
To see current settings just run this
hdparm /dev/hda
I would check the current settings first, since most modern linux distros have this stuff turned on by default.
I don’t think I’ll get the partion working and I might have to hold mandrake off again.