LITTLEBLACKDOG.COM

Stray Dog Joined: 02 May 2001 Posts: 13 Location: USA

I am very new to Linux (Mandrake 8.0) so bear with me here....

I finally got my ntfs drive mounted and I can browse the files etc (its read-only of course).

The drive is full of mp3s but I can only play them when I log in as root, which I of course dont want to do all the time! What do I have to do to allow my user account to use the files as well?

Also, how do I get Linux to mount the drive every time it boots so I dont have to do it manually?

Oh and another....how do I change the default option in the LILO boot manager?

Thanks!

Kibler

Posted: Sat May 19, 2001 10:19 pm Post subject:

Man Kibler you laid out some questions didn't you[ Very Happy

]

1. Allowing your user account access to the files on the NTFS driver: Open up a file manager window as Root, work your way to the top most level directory you want the user account to see and right click on it. Go to the permissions tab and enable read access. This might not work though, since this is not a native FS for Linux.

2. Mounting the NTFS drive automagically: Open up the "mstab" file under the /etc directory and add an entry in there. I don't know the specifics of how the entry should look, but you should be able to figure it out. It won't mount unless the mount point aka directory is already created and it will only mount at boot up so you'll need to reboot after you make the change. If you are mounting manually, the entry should look very similar.

3. Default option in LILO: If you are referring to the default OS that is loaded, go to the /etc directory and open up the "lilo.conf" file. There should be a list of the various OSes or kernel images each with a "label=" line. Above those various entries will be a "default=" line which defines the default. If there is no "default=" line the default is the first entry in the list. After you change the "lilo.conf" file save it and then as "root" do a "/sbin/lilo" at the command line. This will reread the "lilo.conf" file and reinstall LILO to the boot sector.

Rover
- I don't have a god complex...I just like people to think I do!