mounting drives

Forum thread started by mmarquardt on Wed, 2008-05-28 01:20

I have Haiku running on VMware. How do I mount hard drives, cdroms, and usb drives? I have a floppy drive connected to a pcmcia usb card. Can I mount the hard drive from which VMware is running? VMware is running on Windows XP on a fat32 partition. There are no other available partitions on the drive. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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Re: mounting drives

by miqlas - 2008-05-29 22:20

Yes, You can :)
But!
You can mount drives only that definied in the .vmx file. And the drive must have supported filessystem. Haiku now support more filesystem, but almost all of them deactivated because data loss. But if You make an own build (check the HOWTO) and then You can mount NTFS, FAT, ISO9660, ReiserFS, UDF, etc...

Bye!
miqlas

Re: mounting drives

by cb88 - 2008-05-29 23:36

if you boot haiku on real hardware then it automounts flash drives perfectly in most cases straight to the desktop ....

Re: mounting drives

by mmarquardt - 2008-05-30 02:06

How do you boot Haiku on real hardware? Thanks.

Re: mounting drives

by Hubert - 2008-05-30 14:20
miqlas wrote:

Yes, You can :)
But!
You can mount drives only that definied in the .vmx file. And the drive must have supported filessystem. Haiku now support more filesystem, but almost all of them deactivated because data loss. But if You make an own build (check the HOWTO) and then You can mount NTFS, FAT, ISO9660, ReiserFS, UDF, etc...

Bye!
miqlas

But why Haiku don't see partition of fat32 on HDD? Pendrive with fat Haiku see and opened corectly.

Re: mounting drives

by cb88 - 2008-05-30 16:36

I't is not really practical for end users... and you pretty much would need to be running linux or BeOS first I think. If you meet those prerequisites them you should search for the post that deals with this topic if not just wait for a livecd release

Re: mounting drives

by mmarquardt - 2008-05-31 01:48

Thank you for the advice and information. I must say, I really don't understand why the developers have not released Haiku as a livecd. It seems to me that testing and evaluation and use of Haiku would be much easier and enhanced if one did not have to deal with the limitations of running it on a virtual machine. Do you have any idea when a livecd of Haiku might be released? Thanks.