Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I recently installed Wine, and when I was in the winecfg, I set the drive/path association to auto-detect, and it seems my mounted hard drives have disappeared. I've tried uninstalling Wine, I've tried uninstalling Automatix and re-installing, I've tried changing the config, and I still cannot get my hard drives back. I obviously did something. Any ideas how to get out of this rut? Thanks!
P.S. - I'm very very new to the Linux operating system, so I apologize ahead of time if I'm an extreme noob!!
Check your etc/fstab file for the correct mount points for your drives. should look something like this # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 ################################################################## Wine uses a virtual filesystem located in ~/wine/fake-windows/C: and always works better with a real fat32 windows install on a partition. That being the case.. why run wine at all?.. If you want to run .exe programs just use windows. edit I was going to help more... but wine sucks so I won't
Haha thanks, lol. Actually I was reading a bit about vm's and I read that it's best to install Windows within Linux. And strangely enough, when I loaded into Ubuntu this morning (after seeing your recommendations), my hard drives were mounted again. Strange.....?? Think it might have something to do with a virus, or maybe the reset of a program? I appreciate the help a lot! I'd love the help of installing Windows within Linux.....if you feel like helping me out there! I've found a lot of tutorials, but again, being new to Linux makes these tuts look like Chinese! lol Thanks again!
Sorry for double-posting! varnull I forgot to answer your question at the end of your post. The reason I want to emulate Windows is a) because I may soon be switching completely to Linux if I can get this working, and b) I'm actually having issues with Windows at the moment, and can't seem to find my XP CD. In other words I'm getting fed up with Microsoft, lol. I'm looking into a more open-source OS.
Don't bother with things like vm's and wine until you get the hang of linux. There is open source software which does everything and more that most people ever do with doze.. regardless of the fanboy rants about certain applications Fire me a pm if you want to know what to do to fix your windows and dual boot with linux ;-)
