NTFS & Derbian

[petergardiner]

As an arch beginner, I am looking to do a dual boot with Windows XP on an NTFS file system. I am also running and AMD 64 bit chip.

Running searches within this forum did not deliver any help to me. I have managed to install Linux on a physical drive but am unable to access my windows files. My current thinking is that I would probably do better to start again.

Any pointers would be appreciated. Also an overview of the Linux environment would be useful. The Derbian platform looks good but should I really be looking elsewhere?

Feeling daunted!

Peter

[devils casper]

did you mount Windows partitions?
open Terminal/Konsole and execute this

su 
fdisk -l
df -h

post out of both commands here.

[petergardiner]

My thanks for prompt response.

I mounted Windows partitions on one hard drive and let Derbian run its course on the other. As I recall it mounted "system3" or "file3" on the seconnd hard disk which it took over.

By this routine to change the boot I have to go into the bios and change the hard disk boot priority. I had expected you be offered the choice of booting system.

Is the "console" you mention for entering your code lines somewhere in that routine or elsewhere?

Best regards


Peter

[devils casper]

Is the "console" you mention for entering your code lines somewhere in that routine or elsewhere?

its in Menu. OR press Alt+F2 and type 'konsole' in the box. execute commands mentioned in above post, and post output here.
where did you install boot loader during debain installation? does GRUB Menu appear at bootup?

[petergardiner]

SU simply gave me a Password prompt which would accept no accept no keystrokes.

Crucially this message came out.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 1089g 2.9 100g 3%
tmpfs 975M 0 975M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 72k 10M 0% /dev/shm


Is this what you were after?

Best regards

Peter Gardiner

[devils casper]

SU simply gave me a Password prompt which would accept no accept no keystrokes.

it doesn't display anything, not even **** coz of scurity reasons. type correct password and press Enter key.

execute all commands again and post output here.
where did you install boot loader during debain installation? does GRUB Menu appear at bootup?

[petergardiner]

Enjoying the fluid communication. Back soon

Am inclined to think GRUB menu does not appear at atart up as I receive no choices.

Back soon


Peter

[devils casper]

GRUB menu should appear at startup. post the contents of menu.lst file too.

less /boot/grub/menu.lst

[petergardiner]

Password:
debianPG:/home/peter# fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
debianPG:/home/peter# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 109G 2.9G 100G 3% /
tmpfs 975M 0 975M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 72K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 975M 0 975M 0% /dev/shm
debianPG:/home/peter#



Is this the right hymsheet?

Seems as though GRUB did not find its way in.

Peter Gardiner

[devils casper]

its small L not one in fdisk -l.