Hello,

I just have discovered and installed MCN Live Toronto on my computer. It works quite well - but there is only one problem, which I couldn't resolve with my little Linux knowledge.

Starting the system with the live-Cd MCN finds all other harddisks (hda1,5+6/hdb1,5+6 with Windows). After having installed it on harddisk it only recognizes its own linux-partition (hdb7+8), but not the other partitions. I have had a look into the fstab-file and in fact there are no other partitions. Then I changed the fstab as root, adding the other hda and hdb infos by hand - but MCN still didn't accept or show the other partitions. Next I've copied the fstab-file from the live-installation (which shows all partitions), and integrated it into the harddisk installation, but MCN didn't accept it either .

Does anyone has an idea how I could convince MCN to get contact to the other partitions? Thanks in advance...


tiorba

there are a LOT of folks here who know more than I do, but i believe I had the same issue. It seems to me that when running in LIVECD mode mcnl loads ntfs-config, whereas when you load it to your HD, it doesnt.

try loading that through MCC and see if that resolves the issue.

J

actually add ntfs-3g and ntfs-config

both of those

j

Hi Mindwave,

thanks for your suggestion. I've forgotten to mention that the Windows Partitions are FAT32 formatted - and not NTFS. I tried to install ntfs-3g and ntfs-config anyway - but of course without success...

Is there an equivalent installation for FAT-partitions? Does anyone know something about?

Thanks


tiorba

WOW that is strange.

are they mounted in the control panel? again, my failing memory, but I believe that once you install MCNL to the hard drive you need to mount your drives to the system through the control panel.

I always give my slight variations of a normal name. Like my 2 320's are mounted at /mnt/var2 and mnt/var3

that way I dont have to worry about PERMENENTLY integrating them with the system, AND I can UNMOUNT them when i want to run a re master.

if you DONT unmount them, your remaster will fail.

try mounting them through the MCC and let us know if that works.

j

Thanks again for your suggestions....I tried your and some other solutions, but there is still no access to the win-partitions, though they are shown as existant by Harddrake. But no way to mount them....

Meanwhile I'm fed up spending a lot of hours in searching a solution. But I keep MCN anyway - even with this problem. Probably I'll try again to resolve it a bit later.

Hi tiorba,

I have a similar situation with my own setup. MCNL, while running in live mode, will mount all disks (although ntfs disks/partitions are mounted read only), but once installed to hard disk will only mount its own disks/partitions. If you wish to mount any other disks or partitions, you have to do it manually using the "mount" command from a terminal window. If your windows disk is /dev/hdb1 and formatted FAT32 you could try:

mount -t fat /dev/hdb1 /mnt

You should then be able to access your windows disk by typing "cd /mnt" from the command line, or by double-clicking on the "Devices" icon on your desktop and open your disk from there and selecting the folder "/mnt".

Regards, Phydeaux.

i never had to mount mine manually through the CLI, but i have done t through the MCC

i thought you tried that didnt you?

j

Hi,

I don't know exactly why but I have access to the win partition which I have written in the fstab-file and which I have mounted as root a couple of days ago. Actually I havn't enough time to see what happened, but I'll try to find it out later.

tiorba