Dual boot system question

[Strike4ce]

I have windows xp and Kubuntu breezy 5.10 installed on my dell laptop inspiron 8600. Is there anyway that I can access files in my windows xp partition and move some to kubuntu?

[whoiam55]

Re: Dual boot system question

yes you can mount your windows xp partitions in kubuntu, but you can move you files only if you have FAT/FAT32 partitions in windowsXP, linux doesn't fully support RW mode for NTFS partitions, you can copy your files to kubuntu though. If you want help how to mount a partition, you can check the man page of mount. type man mount 5. If you need help mounting your partitions, post the output of sudo fdisk -l && cat /etc/fstab.

[michal]

Re: Dual boot system question

You have to mount windows partition.
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
where hda1 is windows partition (it may be on a different partition, like hda2 or hdb etc.)
Then cd into /mnt/win. Check your /mnt directory, maybe that partition is mounted already.

If you want to mount some partitions on system boot automatically change /etc/fstab file, but you have to know what you are doing. See man pages for mount and fstab.

What is more, if you use ntfs, you will be able only to read. There are captive drivers for writing to ntfs partitions but it's very slow.

[unsurreal]

Re: Dual boot system question

yes you can mount your windows xp partitions in kubuntu, but you can move you files only if you have FAT/FAT32 partitions in windowsXP, linux doesn't fully support RW mode for NTFS partitions,

I do believe the 2.6 Kernel has corrected most of those issues.

[aysiu]

Re: Dual boot system question

http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#windows

Just change all the gedit references to kwrite

[Kroesss]

Re: Dual boot system question

http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#windows

Just change all the gedit references to kwrite

Sorry to bother you guys with a (probably) easy question, but what would this precisely do?

[Nirvana]

Re: Dual boot system question

It's a detailed guide on how to mount Windows partitions- both NFTS and FAT

[Kroesss]

Re: Dual boot system question

Okay, and what does aysiu's raplacement from gedit to kwrite do?

[tokaok]

Re: Dual boot system question

gedit and kwrite are like Windows "Notepad", just simple text editors.

gedit comes in gnome(ubuntu)
kwrite comes in Kde (Kubuntu)

[aysiu]

Re: Dual boot system question

Okay, and what does aysiu's raplacement from gedit to kwrite do?

When the guide says something like

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

it means with root privileges (sudo) open a text editor (gedit) to modify this file (/etc/fstab). If you do that command in KDE, it's going to give you an error because there is no gedit in KDE. The translation would be with root privileges (sudo) open a text editor (kwrite) to modify this file (/etc/fstab)... or

sudo kwrite /etc/fstab

[Kroesss]

Re: Dual boot system question

Okay, thanks for explaining. I'm really starting from zero with linux as you can see. Very exited though, I love the philosofy behind the whole thing.

Keep up the good work!