Bug#401216: FAQ: howto make hard disk partitions auto-mountable

[csights at fastmail.fm (csights)]

Package: live-package
Version: 0.99.14-1
Severity: wishlist

	Here is some brief documentation on how to make mounting
harddrive partitions from a removable boot device a little slicker.  
Maybe could be included in the user's FAQ on the debian-live wiki?
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HOWTO make hard disk partitions auto-mountable

	The following instructions have been tested in KDE.  They 
should also work for Gnome as well, to the extent that it uses 
HAL in the same way as KDE!
	To allow harddrive partitions to appear in the KDE media:/ ioslave, 
one simply needs to remove a file installed by the hal package:

#rm ${CHROOT}/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/debian-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi

(then recreate and boot ISO)

	Ext2, Ext3, and vfat partitions are mounted read-write. NTFS 
partitions are mounted read-only....
	The ability to mount NTFS read-write using media:/ _almost_ works.  
Install the ntfs-3g package and link /usr/bin/ntfs-3g -> /sbin/mount.ntfs
(then recreate and boot ISO.)
	Clicking on the NTFS partition will mount it read-write, but KDE isn't 
informed of this by HAL.  The partition will be mounted under /media/ and 
can be accessed from there.  The media:/ slave continues to show the partition
as unmounted.
	(A future version of HAL may fix this problem.  See this HAL commit
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commit;h=2ea340399bf8cf3d2bb6bd1b5c4ecbc2042e93d4 )
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Thanks!





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ii  genext2fs                    1.4-rc1-2.1 ext2 filesystem generator for embe
ii  mkisofs                      5:1.0-1     Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  squashfs-tools               1:2.2r2-3   Tool to create and append to squas

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