[Lancaster] Technical question

[john]

Hi Ken

If you add an entry to the /etc/fstab you can mount it automatically at 
startup.

Not sure about mounting the home folder in the mepis home.

Whenever I upgrade OS's on my server, I always install the new one in a 
new partition, and mount the old one in a directory called oldos. This 
way I can get all settings etc before I trash it permanently.

Regards

John

Ken Walton wrote:

> If you've been following the list, you'll know I'm giving MEPIS a test
> run at the moment. I have to say, I'm impressed with the speed. Every
> other Linux I've tried which uses KDE has been rather sluggish. This
> one is faster than Ubuntu using GNOME when it comes to opening
> windows, menus etc.
>
> Anyway, what I wanted to know is this. I've got MEPIS on partition
> hda3, and Ubuntu on hda1. If I do "mount /mnt/hda1" I can access the
> Ubuntu partition, but I have to do it manually. What I want to know
> is:
>
> 1) How can I get hda1 to mount automatically in MEPIS
> 2) Can I connect the home directory of hda1 to the filesystem in the
> home directory of MEPIS, so I don't have to wander quite so far to get
> to my documents?
>
> I'm pretty sure it's possible, but I just don't know how! :-)