HD Install :: Automount
I getting almost the same problem, DSL booted it successfully from the live CD, but hdd partitions are not automounted. When I tried to play a music file with XMMS, from one of the partitions, /mnt/hda1, /mnt/hda5 were empty. So I tried to mount it manually from the console/terminal. But it didn't work. Could you please help me ?
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -o uid=1001 should give you access to those partitions. Or select enhanced desktop and use mount.app in the lower right corner of the screen.
I edited my ~/.initrc to automount hda5 and hda6 by adding the following to it:
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 &
mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 &
Don't forget to add the "&"
Bassically commands you put in you ~/.initrc will run when you log in. I use DSL on my laptop for use as an mp3 player for my car so I added in a line for my soundcard to work properly and one to autolaunch xmms. Now if I can just figure out what commands I can use to automatically turn down the mic volume so I don't get feedback before I get a chance to turn it down with the app.
Donar: ¿how can you turn off the MIC (or chage the volumes)?
I cant find a mixer in all this system, could someone help we with this? Because I will work with audio programs to make music!
marcosg@argentina.com
www.pc-musica.tk 
Hi all. Been reading this thread and I think what you really want to do it add the following lines to /opt/bootlocal.sh
mount /mnt/hda1
(or whatever partition you want to mount on boot)
I wanted my damnsmall box to be able to mount a vfat partition and then run monkey web server without having to login as a user. the Server_root is on the vfat partition. I did not want to mess around with knoppix-autoconfig or the fstab regenerating script and all that, so I simply put the above line in /opt/bootlocal.sh and the following to run the web server:
./opt/monkey/bin/banana start
So, /mnt/hda1 is mounted and monkey is started by the time you get to the login: prompt
This is handy if somebody reboots the machine for some fool reason, and saves memory by not requiring you to run X.
BTW: my box is also running as a samba server. Apt-Get was great at installing samba and swat... Sweet! 
Hope this helps!
Cappy
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