Mounting a NTFS drive

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Sun Aug 7 17:28:42 UTC 2005


On zo, 2005-08-07 at 09:21 -0400, Yombute wrote:
> This sounds great and is exactly what I need...but, as a VERY new
> linux
> user (yesterday) and being so accustomed to windows, I don't
> understand
> what you mean by "download" the file.  I, of course, am accustomed to
> seeing a file to click on for download and I know where it goes.  If
> you have a minute and the patience to help me could you explain the
> process to me .  I have no desire to actually RUN windows progs on
> here
> but I'd like to access my music and picture files.

The 2-line dummy-proof instruction is to run the following commands:

wget http://ubuntulinux.nl/files/winmac_fstab
subo bash winmac_fstab

wget will download it (file -> save as in firefox will do that too :))
and the second line will run it with root privileges.
-- 
Dennis K.
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