Whoa! Is this for real?!

[Basil Chupin]

On 15/04/10 01:02, Steve Grace wrote:
> Colin Law wrote:
>    
>> On 14 April 2010 15:36, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I have been installing Karmic and Lucid Beta 1 on HDs which contained no
>>> other operating systems.
>>>
>>> Earlier today I installed Lucid Beta 2 on a set of HDs which had XP
>>> installed  - Lucid replaced another Linux distro which dual-booted with XP.
>>>
>>> A few minutes ago I went to see what was on the Windows partitions - and
>>> there were none showing in Lucid! There are no entries in fstab for all
>>> the XP partitions.
>>>
>>> Why didn't the installation process pick up on these partitions and
>>> include them in the fastab? Is it something which I missed doing during
>>> the install stage or is this a (nasty) "feature" of Ubuntu? I didn't
>>> bother to check what the disk partitoner was doing during the
>>> installation because the other distro I've been using - openSUSE - sees
>>> and puts them into fstab automatically.
>>>        
>> I believe that the installer does not automatically include other
>> partitions in fstab.  They should be visible in the Places menu so
>> they can be mounted on demand.
>>
>> Colin
>>      
> That's been my experience as well -- if you want the XP partitions in
> fstab you'll need to add them.
>    
Thanks. See my other responses - I seem to have missed selecting the 
partitions during the install.

BC


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