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346 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution At this point you can open the folder to the partition (hda2 in our example) or open a shell and write to that directory (/mnt/hda2 and any subdirectories). To make that change permanent (in the KNOPPIX sense), you need to change the /etc/fstab to add rw to the entry for the partition so it is mounted read/write by default. Again, with the example of /dev/hda2, an entry in /etc/fstab to mount that partition read/write could look as follows: /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0 With that change, simply typing mount /dev/hda2 mounts the directory with read/write permissions. You can save that change permanently, as described in the Keeping Your KNOPPIX Configuration section later in this chapter. Mounting Windows Partitions for Writing Getting your Windows partitions mounted for writing is a bit tougher. Although using FAT and VFAT file systems works pretty much the same as described for Linux partitions (provided they are properly detected and configured in /etc/fstab), the drivers for using NTFS file systems (the current default for Windows) are unreliable for writing. If you have legal Windows drivers on your hard disk (which you should if you are booting KNOPPIX from an otherwise-Windows machine), KNOPPIX provides a reliable way to set up your NTFS partitions to be read/write accessible from KNOPPIX. Here s how: You must make sure that you have the legal right to use Microsoft NTFS-related drivers to use this procedure. 1. Click the squished penguin logo in the panel, and then select Utilities. Captive NTFS. The Captive Microsoft Windows Drivers Acquire window appears. 2. Click Forward. The Local Disks Drivers Scan window appears, ready to look for the drivers KNOPPIX needs to access the NTFS partitions for writing. 3. Click Forward to look for the drivers. If the drivers are found, you can continue. If not, it asks for a location on the network where it can get the drivers. If that is not available, it offers the opportunity to get the Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack, if you are legally allowed to get that. 4. Once the necessary drivers are installed, you can mount the NTFS partition using the mount command with the captive-ntfs file system type. For example, if your NTFS partition is on hda1, you could type the following (as root user): # umount /dev/hda1 # mkdir /mnt/captive-LABEL_C # mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/captive-Label_C Caution
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