how to mount ntfs partitions

A common problem (almost for me in the past) when have installed multiple O.S. in the same computer is remember what device belong to determinate partition. For remember that, we can use the following command as root:

#fdisk -l

then the output show us the device and the determinated filesystem.

now, if we have a windows xp installed in other partition, we can install the ntfs-3g package.

after, we mount the partition with the following command (as root):

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdax /mnt/

and now, we have our windows partition mounted in linux.

Now, if you want this changes permanently, you can edit the /etc/fstab file (as root too).

(I like use nano)

nano /etc/fstab

and add the following line:

/dev/sdax /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

Save it and type: mount -a

and now you can browse the /mnt/win_c directory and search into your windows files.

remember add a locale that corresponding to your country.
the target folder /mnt/win_c was create for my following the same way that made it mandrake 8.1 (my fisrt distro).


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I'm back again...

Well, a long time ago I think in write my own blog. I has the idea of write about my daily activities and my interestings like computers, software and more. But, because I'm too lazy last time, and no write entries (I write only two in this blog :S ), and nothing is really interesting for me last time.

I hope change my mind from now. and continue writing this blog, but y like write only in english, because y like improve it. In other hand, I like write about some things that I would learn (improve my C programming skills, network programming, linux skills and others.)

I hope improve my english while I write here.

see you...

Manuales de Debian

Navegando en por un sitio chileno de Debian he encontrado estos manuales que estan bastante buenos y tratan temas básicos desde la instalación hasta la configuración de algunos servicios.

La forma de explicarlos es bastante sencilla y no se profundiza mucho en los temas, los manuales los pueden encontrar aquí

Intel 3945ABG y wireless en Debian

Muchos notebooks traen la tarjeta wireless Intel 3495ABG, esta es muy facil de configurar en Debian.

Primero agregamos "contrib" a los repositorios y luego:

#sudo apt-get update
#sudo apt-get install firmware-ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-modules-`uname -r`

y listo, reiniciamos el sistema y tendremos la tarjeta configurada.

para escanear las redes disponibles:

#sudo iwlist eth1 scanning

Ahora para conectarnos a una red abierta corremos los siguientes comandos:

#sudo iwconfig eth1 essid Nombre_de_la_Red
#sudo dhclient eth1

Ahora si nuestra red tiene autenticacion:

#sudo iwconfig eth1 essid Nombre_de_la_Red
#sudo iwconfig eth1 key la_clave (si es en hexadecimal)
#sudo iwconfig eth1 key s:la_clave (si es en ASCII)
#sudo dhclient eth1

y deberia funcionar Ok.

Saludos.
RrV