[Gllug] Discovery Day

[David Reed]

Jason Clifford wrote:

>In my opinion the right fix to this is to change the /etc/fstab file so 
>that options for the line relevant to the windows partition sets a umask 
>of 000 like so:
>
>/dev/hda1   /windows  vfat  defaults,umask=000   0 0
>
>This way any user with a login can read and write to the /windows 
>partition without problems.
>
>
>Just so you know the Ubuntu people are going to fix this in the next 
>release although they've not yet decided upon how they will do so.
>
>  
>
Thanks for this hint, but I have seen this already. My problem is that 
this is an excellent example but it refers to what is probably a typical 
set up prior to the Ubuntu installation.  What I could not understand is 
whether the first section of the line should refer to my first partition 
/dev/sda1  or to /dev/sda6 which is the data partition I want to open 
up. In which case, is the second part of the line "/windows" relevant ? 
I have seen the examples in the guide that came with Breezy, but I did 
not know how to apply them to my specific situation and, frankly, I 
still don't.

However, I think that the really difficult hurdle is that posed by 
trying install a distribution on the legacy IDE hard disks. No one on 
this list seems to have come up with a solution. I watched with eager 
anticipation when it was mentioned about ten days ago, but only Nix and 
Tet even proferred a solution and then it all fizzled out. It is impossible?

David Reed
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