[Omega_Shadow]

Originally Posted by brendandonhu

I believe its the same as vi

Hit Escape. At the little : prompt, type
wq

That will save and close.

If Escape doesn't get you to the : prompt, hit Ctrl [ instead.

nether esc or ctrl [ get me to prompt. I looked throught the visido man and could not find how to close and save

[brendandonhu]

Surely one of those works.
Its a small prompt...it just has a :

man vi will tell you more about it.

[Omega_Shadow]

I see no such prompt. See for yourself....

As for man vi, I see the prompt there like it should be in visido. I have given up on this line of thought and going back to the begining...

Need to access NTFS Drive. Steps I completed succsesfuly: Installed NTFS-Kernal-Moduel. Steps yet to complete: Mount Partition 2 on Hda. I think I will do this by having the system mount it automaticly by editing /etc/fstab. Can anyone walk me though that process?

EDIT> To get to the prompt in Visido, the keystroke is Shift :

[lynch]

To close and save in vi, vim or visudo you hit Esc to leave Insert(edit) mode, and then type ZZ.
That's Shift+zz.
lynch

[brendandonhu]

I think he's saying Esc doesn't get him into command mode. Also, doesn't :wq save and exit?

[lynch]

That's odd: hitting the Esc key should put you there. Unless he never entered Insert mode to begin with.
Yes, typing :wq will quit and save, but ZZ is easier.
lynch

[brendandonhu]

wq = 2 key presses
ZZ = 2 or 3

[Omega_Shadow]

Shift : put me into command mode. Esc and ctrl [ where just doing weird things to my termanal screen (changeing the icon for the termanal session, for instance)

On to bigger things: that didnt work, Fedora still thinks I am trying to hack into it. Frankly, I dont care, as long as I can access this partittion within the next few days or Fedora is going bye-bye. I have no use for an OS that makes the simplist task a monumental project.

Lets try it this way: if you wanted to get into an NTFS partition, what would you do? Go step by step, dont leave a single command or keystroke out. No more half guesses on my part.

Then maybe, MAYBE, we can get something done

[Squashman]

You still need to type the colon.

[brendandonhu]

Originally Posted by Omega_Shadow

Shift : put me into command mode. Esc and ctrl [ where just doing weird things to my termanal screen (changeing the icon for the termanal session, for instance)

On to bigger things: that didnt work, Fedora still thinks I am trying to hack into it. Frankly, I dont care, as long as I can access this partittion within the next few days or Fedora is going bye-bye. I have no use for an OS that makes the simplist task a monumental project.

Lets try it this way: if you wanted to get into an NTFS partition, what would you do? Go step by step, dont leave a single command or keystroke out. No more half guesses on my part.

Then maybe, MAYBE, we can get something done

All you need to do is add it to /etc/fstab, as someone said earlier. You only need to edit sudoers if you want to mount it as a regular user.

You still need to type the colon.

Whoops, confused nano and vi.

[Omega_Shadow]

Originally Posted by brendandonhu

All you need to do is add it to /etc/fstab, as someone said earlier.

What do I add? How do I add it? Please remember I used to be a windows user and not used to thinking ( ) I need specific instructions

[brendandonhu]

Login as root
Edit the file /etc/fstab
Add a new line to it like this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/stuff ntfs user,rw 0 0

Change /dev/hda1 to the location of this partition.
Change /mnt/stuff to the folder you want it to be mounted to.
Save, exit, and reboot.

You don't have to use vi to make this edit, you can do it in KDE if you like, as long as you're root.

[Omega_Shadow]

Ok! Now we are getting somewhere! After the re-boot I saw a drive icon on my desktop (hda2). Upon clicking it I get the dialog posted below.

So close....

[brendandonhu]

How many partitions do you have on /dev/hda1?

[Omega_Shadow]

lets see; win_c, win_d, and my mandrake install (a partition and a swap, I think) So thats about 4

The partition I want to mount is D