VMWare Server/USB HDD/Ubuntu

ambasite

installed Ubuntu 6.06 on usb hard drive using VMWare Server on Windoes XP. hard drive has 3 partitions - F,G,H. Linux image is on G partition, how can i access the G & H partitions of the hard drive? they currently do not appear on the Linux file manager. thanks.

ethernet

You should have had the option to set their mount points during the installation. You can mount them manually or set them to mount during boot-up. What format are they?

If it's NTFS, then this will help. Just open the terminal and type:

sudo mount -t ntfs -r /dev/hdaX /windows

Where X is a number, e.g. hda1 [first partition on the first IDE partition]. In your case, it could be /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc.

Khannie

Are you running linux through vmware player?

If so....You wont be able to mount them direclty. You'll need to investigate samba.

ambasite

ethernet wrote:

You should have had the option to set their mount points during the installation. You can mount them manually or set them to mount during boot-up. What format are they?

If it's NTFS, then this will help. Just open the terminal and type:

sudo mount -t ntfs -r /dev/hdaX /windows

Where X is a number, e.g. hda1 [first partition on the first IDE partition]. In your case, it could be /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc.

can't remember error message off hand but mount point does not exist, tried various points - /sda1, /sda2, /sda3, /sdb... etc.

GreenHell

fdisk -l should list all available partitions

ambasite

Khannie wrote:

Are you running linux through vmware player?

If so....You wont be able to mount them direclty. You'll need to investigate samba.

running it through the server console. think i might try dual boot instead.