Mandrakelinux assistence needed....

[DarkSilver]

I've made the switch, after going over some of the recommended distributions in the last linux thread I had, and I installed Mandrake 10.1 today, after downloading and burning the iso's.

so, far, I was able to get firefox up and running, with a minimum of fuss (it just took me a second to realieze how it was installed, and to navigate...still working on that).

Anyway, I have a secondary harddrive which still has files stored from the previous windows install (I'll be reinstalling XP to have a dual-boot system later this evening), and whenever I attempt to access the drive mnt/windows, as it was named....) it tells me I do not have permission to access the drive. I'm obviously not logged in as admin, though I probably should since I'm going to be the only one using this computer...

So my question is this...after the huge ass story, is there anyway I can gain access to the windows partioned drive without having to log in as admin? I really would like to get to my mp3's and those unwatched justice league episodes...

any offered suggestions will be, as always, greatly appreciated.

[Crayz9000]

Apparently diskdrake didn't set the permissions on the drive correctly.

To fix that, go into the Mandrake Control Center, go to Mount Points, go to Partitions, and click OK when it warns you. Then toggle it to Expert mode and click on your Windows partition. On the left, choose Options. Check the box next to "umask=0" (which is titled "Give write access to ordinary users"). Make sure that "ro" is unchecked, and also make sure that "nosuid" and "noexec" are checked.

When you're done, click Unmount and then click Mount. You should now be able to access your Windows files.

[DarkSilver]

Apparently diskdrake didn't set the permissions on the drive correctly.

To fix that, go into the Mandrake Control Center, go to Mount Points, go to Partitions, and click OK when it warns you. Then toggle it to Expert mode and click on your Windows partition. On the left, choose Options. Check the box next to "umask=0" (which is titled "Give write access to ordinary users"). Make sure that "ro" is unchecked, and also make sure that "nosuid" and "noexec" are checked.

When you're done, click Unmount and then click Mount. You should now be able to access your Windows files.

shibby, that worked, just had to remember my root password.....

Thanks aload Crazy, appreciate it..

And now, that I'm actually giving Mandrake a run through, installing things (like WINE) and getting a few of my winblows proggies running under Mandrake....

this is pretty kick ass....better than windows anyday

[JediToren]

I'm obviously not logged in as admin, though I probably should since I'm going to be the only one using this computer...

Never login directly as root, ever. If you want to know why, read this link:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat- ... 03682.html

Also, if you haven't already, check out EasyURPMI.

If you want a recommendation on a good music manager, I recommend MadMan, which can be found in any mandrake contrib source or the official MadMan website.

Celestia is a pretty cool app, its a solar system/galaxy/universe simulator. OpenGL, you can fly to the different planets, zoom in on the ISS, or fly out of the galaxy. You can even go down to ground level and see the sky and clouds. It's awesome! But go to Celestia Motherlode for hi-rez maps and other cool stuff.

Make sure you check out Mike Wong's pages:
Linux Setup Tips
Security for N00bs

Also make sure you keep your system up to date.[/url]

[Crayz9000]

Also, if you want to play "protected" DVDs, watch recent Windows Media, RealMedia, or Quicktime files, or a number of other things, you should add the Penguin Liberation Front (PLF) sources.

You can do that through the EasyURPMI link given above, by the way.

Basically, you'll need libdvdcss for DVDs (but don't tell that to your friendly neighborhood MPAA rep), win32-codecs for playing most media files, and xine-win32 to interface to Xine, gxine, and Totem.

You can also use the mplayer-gui program to play files. It often will play stuff that xine chokes on.