Mounting Windows With My Kubuntu.

[Doug]

On 09/02/2016 10:33 PM, Richard Barmann wrote:
> I have one hard drive (158GB---144GB free.) /dev/sda1 partition Linux
> (Bootable).  Ext4  ---Mounted at filesystem root. I am thinking of
> mounting Window98 along side Kubuntu on this drive.
>
> I have a 80GB Hard Drive  with my Data on with 38GB free. /dev/sdb1.
>
> I need to mount my Windows 98 so I can convert 465 35mm Slides from the
> past that I found in a window seat. Had been forgotten about. I may find
> it easier to pay Walmart 22 cents apiece to convert.
>
> I am open to all suggestions or ADVICE.
>
> Dick
>
>
I don't know why you couldn't use Linux to convert your slides to any 
one of a batch of common formats. I don't know how you intend to scan 
them in—it would take a while one-at-a-time.
I have an Epson Perfection V300 Photo that can scan about 6 at a time, 
and is designed to do that, as well as conventional scanning. It's been 
around for quite a while so might be available
cheap on eBay, but I haven't looked. There might be some device designed 
to scan slides in quantity, maybe from a tray, like a slide projector. 
Worth Googling! (Then you would surely
need a compatible program, and it's probably only available for Windows, 
and my bet is a late version, not W98.)

But it's still going to be quite a bit of work, and $107 + tax, if any, 
would appear like a cheap solution compared to the alternative. But you 
didn't mention what format(s) you desire the
scanned images in—jpeg files, or paper prints, or what? If you want 
paper prints, then Walmart is obviously the way to go, but then you 
don't have any way to modify—touch up—the pictures, or
to obtain multiple copies. (Of course, you can always bring selected 
slides back for copies.) OTOH, if Walmart provides jpeg or similar 
output files, then you have the same problem you had in
the first instance—doing it yourself—how do you get output you can 
display and share around.

Just a quick analysis. Hope it's useful.

--doug