On Mon 12 Sep 2016 at 14:14:53 (-0400), Alan McConnell wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Felix Miata" <mrma...@earthlink.net> > Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 10:14:26 PM > Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved > > David Wright composed on 2016-09-11 21:44 (UTC-0500): > ... > >> Subject: Re: How to get Jessie to run at boot time -- Problem solved > ... > How is it beneficial to list anyone here or searching list archives to > continue a thread by chastising an OP for being imperfect more than 12 hours > after OP added string "solved" to the subject and thanked people who provided > useful help? > <LOL> Hurrah for Felix! He got it.
Glad you found it funny. > > Now I have a follow-on question: I'd like to be able, from Jessie, to copy > files to and from my > Windoze system. I haven't really tried simply cd-ing to e.g. /dev/sda1, > which is the partition > containing my Windoze stuff. Is that what you dual OS users do? is there > some subtle mount > command that you use? I shall be most grateful for any instructions, or > even suggestions. I put lines in /etc/fstab that look like: UUID=8CA476AAA4769684 /media/olaf01 ntfs ro,utf8 UUID=349A79B99A797866 /media/olaf02 ntfs ro,utf8 where those UUIDs come from dire /dev/disk/by-uuid/* or /run/udev/data/b* but bear in mind that I only transfer file in one direction. I don't mess with NTFS disks: if I want to move files, I transfer them via a VFAT stick in the USB socket. That way, if and when they get screwed up, the blame lies firmly with M$. (The mount points follow my convention of the disk's nickname plus two digits for the partition numbers.) For anyone following this thread, do they recognise those UUIDs? The reason I ask is that I have two XP systems both with those numbers, but I have no idea if the university installs new PC OSes by cloning disks, or whether the UUIDs carry information like 30E002E0454647 now does. (Until today, google didn't find them; tomorrow it might.) Cheers, David.
