Garth Raber wrote:
> I installed Viewer on Mepis using the CD . It opens no problem, but I
> don't know how to get access to my files on the ntfs portion of my
> disc.

Your drives in SimplyMEPIS will be under /mnt

For example, my NTFS partition is located here:

/mnt/hda1

So, when I use an application that doesn't have a storage media choice available in it's menus, I simply use the file system choice an navigate to this folder (which is really my NTFS partition).

Note that you can tell what the mount point is by starting KDiskfree. You'll find it under System>File System>View Disk Usabe (KDiskfree). Just look in the mount point column for your NTFS partition to see where it's going to be (probably under /mnt somewhere).

One other comment. NTFS partitions may or may not be automounted until you click on one from Konquerer (or use something like KDiskfree to mount it).

There is a very easy way to make it Automount, if it's not being Automounted already. That way, it will already be mounted when you use Windows applications under Wine.,

Mount Points for disk drives in Linux are stored in this text file:

/etc/fstab

You can edit it using Kwrite like this (note that some X authentication messages when starting it like this are normal). Or, you can just use KWrite as Root, navigate to that folder and click on it (in the KDE menus under System>File System>Super User Mode). This way is easier:

kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab

Find the line that mounts your NTFS partition, and move it up to where it's above the Dynamic entries section (just cut and paste it). Then, remove NOAUTO and the following comma

It will end up looking something like this (see the line that has ntfs-3g in it). I just removed the noauto and comma, making sure it's *above* the dynamic section in this file. That way, it will automatically mount using ntfs-3g at each bootup without clicking on it using Konquerer first.

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/hda4 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs-3g users 0 0
# Dynamic entries below
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0

In other words, if it looks something like this:

# Dynamic entries below
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs-3g noauto,users 0 0

Change it to this (where it's *above* the Dynamic entries without the noauto, part)

/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs-3g users 0 0
# Dynamic entries below

That way, it will already be mounted when you use Windows apps under Wine if you haven't clicked on it from a Linux app yet). Then, you'll find your drive in Windows apps by navigating to the mount point shown when browsing folders In my case, it's here:

/mnt/hda1

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