Mounting alien discs at boot time - Solved

[Keith Logan]

Hi,

As I said in the other post, I am now quite settled. The other little niggle I have learned to live with
is always having to remember to mount my main document hard disc partition before using a
program to open a file. I have as of a long time ago, set up the extended partition of the windows
boot disc to be the documents directory (ntfs). I also have a much bigger backup disc in fat32.
It would be ideal if these both auto-mounted at boot time.

Keith,
the happy chappy

[kjpetrie]

If that partition is not on a moveable device and will always be present at boot, you can go to PCC -> Discs -> Local Discs and give it a mount point there, probably under /home/. Don't choose an existing directory unless it's one specially made for the purpose or you might hide vital parts of your system. Open the Advanced/Other options (it's in the column of buttons but I can't remember the precise name and it probably varies with language anyway) mode and ensure it's set to be mounted at boot. When you click Done fstab will be rewritten to include the mount details and then it will be mounted automatically during boot.

[Keith Logan]

Thanks KJP,

For your quick response. I already had the ntfs partition, the main document
one working before I saw your reply. I can't tell you how dumb I feel,
Main menu - More Applications - Configuration - NTFS Configuration Tool.
I really did check all round (I thought) including searching the forums.
Well, I've done stupider things  before, and I'm sure I will again.

Keith,
the happy chappy

[Xenaflux]

There is nothing stupid about it.
It happens to the most of us.

It's called: Oops !

[Keith Logan]

Thanks for the kind words Xenaflux,

But be assured, I can be really stupid at times.
However, I have learned to live with that and am still
the happy chappy

[Keith Logan]

Well I managed to bork the upgrade to kde4.8 somehow. Nothing I've read in the other threads gives me any confidence I could attempt to sort it out. What I have done is made a new system based on the June DVD and updated it. So far so good, but the NTFS configuration utility doesn't work (it sets the CPUs off to 100%).

Now I realize test versions are unsupported but I was hoping to follow through the instructions given by KJP (even though I never fully understood them). Well I tried. I got as far as using the Manage Disc Partitions program but the only option I seemed able to choose was /mnt/windows. I failed to discover how to check it mounted at boot time. I  hope that as this is a general question, to clarify the original answer it may be ok. Thanks anyway if its not. as I can learn to live with clicking on a drive, the way I did before.

Keith,
the happy chappy

[menotu]

Additionally you could also have a look in

Configure Your Desktop  >  Hardware >  Removable Devices  - Configure automatic mounting of removable storage  media - with the following options (which includes HDD/Partitions)

Enable automatic mounting of removable media
Only automatically mount removable media that has been manually mounted before
Mount all removable media at login
Automatically mount removable media when attached

[Keith Logan]

Worked a treat, Thanks Menotu.
In my windoze days I was well able to work out these things for myself, though they were usually far less straight forward. Those halcyon days of youth wasted on an inferior OS. Still mustn't cry over spilled milk.

  Very happy chappy

[menotu]

Worked a treat, Thanks Menotu.
In my windoze days I was well able to work out these things for myself, though they were usually far less straight forward. Those halcyon days of youth wasted on an inferior OS. Still mustn't cry over spilled milk.

  Very happy chappy

My pleasure happy chappy