XP and Suse on the same hardisk

[htetnaing]

Hi everyone,

My laptop is dual-mode with XP and Suse. The problem is i downloaded a movie from the internet and saved it on my desktop on Suse. I couldn't run the movie on Suse and I was thinking of transferring that movie into /windows/D and run it on XP. However, i found out that I only have execute and read permission on that specific drive letter and i can't just simply copy and paste. So, i plugged my external hardrive and tried to copy it onto my external drive but the drive letter isn't show up automatically and i got fraustrated. I tried to mount my external driver but i can't dunno why. ( i'm a newbie and all those sda1... * stuff just made me confused). So, umm my question is , is there any way that i can transfer the whole movie from Suse to XP ??? Hopefully , someone would tell me and thank in advance.

[yancek]

Have you tried it as root? You could log in to a terminal and change directories to where the movie is an copy to /windows/D. If you have it on your Desktop and your user name is bob just do: cd /home/bob/Desktop/ (hit enter), then do:
cp nameofmovie /windows/D/NameofDirectory. This assumes you have ntfs-3g installed?

You could check the permissions on the /windows and /D directories to see what rights users have.

[devils casper]

It looks like you dont have write permission for Windows Partitions. Post the contents of /etc/fstab file and output of fdisk -l command here.

cat /etc/fstab
su -
fdisk -l

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[secondmouse]

As an alternative approach, depending on your /home partition type, you can try
rfstool for accessing reiserfs partition
or
Explore2fs for accessing ext2/ext3 partition from xp. Good luck.

[devils casper]

As an alternative approach, depending on your /home partition type, you can try
rfstool for accessing reiserfs partition
or
Explore2fs for accessing ext2/ext3 partition from xp. Good luck.

Thats a good idea. Tools like those including fs-driver mount Linux Partitions in Windows OS and enable read/write access. One copy files easily.
I would suggest you to use those for Copying data only. Windows OS and those tools do not sustain permissions and create problems in Linux OS. Do not edit Linux System files through those atleast.

[htetnaing]

Omg ! Sorry for my late post. I been shifting my XP and Suse for several times. I tried rfstool and Explore2fs but there's an error which says "one or more reiser filesystems were detected but ext2 and ext3 file system are found". this is the output from fstab and fdisk -l . After i've typed fstab it show this

/dev/sda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda7 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0


After i've type fdisk -l , it shows this


Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1305 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1306 9729 67665780 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1306 6527 41945683+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 6623 7872 10040593+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 7873 9178 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 9179 9729 4425876 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 589 MB, 589299200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 71 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 72 575456 b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(70, 254, 63) logical=(71, 164, 2

no idea on those stuff. please help me out of this. Thanks all .

[scrarfussi]

I'm all for open suse why don't you Just download the codecs and watch the movie in suse Multimedia - openSUSE-Community enjoy the linux experience what format is the movie in

[htetnaing]

hi scrarfussi , the movie format is .avi and it's been zipped using winrar . the problem which i'm encountering is when i tried to unzip the file on Suse , It doesn't ask me 2 type in the password so basically, i can't unzip the file because there's a password. anyway, thanks for helping. I found that i can download a lot of packages in the site which ya gave me .

[scrarfussi]

Pleasure dude for files that are compressed with winrar you can install a package called unrar it should sort out your problems with password