[ubuntu-uk] Live CD - Auto mounting existing HDs

Iain Lane ubuntu at orangesquash.org.uk
Sun Aug 3 20:11:22 BST 2008


Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Gents and Ladies
> 
> A, hopefully, quick and simple question.
> 
> Will the Live CD auto mount NTFS HD's automatically without any help from
> the user when running Ubuntu from the CD?
> 
> I am unsure on this point as my own Windows partitions are FAT32.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ian
> 

IIRC, you have to double click on them in Nautlius to mount - they won't
be automounted. And woe betide you if they weren't cleanly unmounted,
for then you have to run a terminal command to force it to work.

hth,
Iain




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