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Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

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Mounting Partitions

After booting from CD and before install, how can I mount an NTFS partition to read some instructions from it?

morellik

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 43

Re: Mounting Partitions

Did you tried to mount the partition directly?

mkdir /mnt/ntfs
mount ntfs_partition /mnt/ntfs

where ntfs_partition is your partition like /dev/sda1.

Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 45

Re: Mounting Partitions

Done that.
It only throws an empty line with a blinking cursor.

I booted off the cd following this thread : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36065

Should this be the problem?

trilog

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From: Kuusankoski, Finland

Registered: 2007-08-22

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Re: Mounting Partitions

Done that.
It only throws an empty line with a blinking cursor.?

If mounting complete successful it don't say anything. Take a look in /mnt/ntfs and if you see some stuff in there, you're done.

Last edited by trilog (2007-08-22 09:56:49)

Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

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Re: Mounting Partitions

I did not explained thoroughly then. My english is not so good. After I enter the command, it throws me on an empty line like this :

#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs/
_

The _ is the cursor, and it stands like that till kingdom come. That is what I meant by nothing happend. I mounted my share of hdd's in my life, so I know how to acces one

morellik

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 43

Re: Mounting Partitions

Did you tried to watch the log file during the mount?

Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

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Re: Mounting Partitions

How can I watch that?

morellik

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 43

Re: Mounting Partitions

How can I watch that?

After the boot, execute the mount command, press ALT+F2 to open another terminal and check the /var/log files like
messageslog, syslog.log, kernel.log using the tail command (to see only the last lines), like:

tail /var/log/messages.log

erm67

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 123

Re: Mounting Partitions

try the ntfs-3g driver it works well and provides write access to the partitions.
install it with
pacman -S ntfs-3g
then:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs/
or in the fstab like this:
/dev/sda1              /mnt/ntfs  ntfs-3g      rw,user,utf8,noauto         0      0

Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 45

Re: Mounting Partitions

Thanks, it works excellently!