livecd doesn't detect hard drive

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I am pretty new to linux.
I am using an openSuse 11 i386 live CD.
I have 2 internal hard drives (80 gb + 40 gb)
When I got to My Computer, I get a list of all partitions, but when I click on them, none of the links work(the page simply refreshes).
In Dolphin, I only get a floppy drive and my DVD drive… no hard disk partitons…
My mnt/ and media/ folders are empty.

Can anyone help?

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As you say the LiveCD has detected your partitions - they show up in My Computer - but it will not touch them because it is a LiveCD. The only things it allows you to touch - floppy and DVD - are things it knows it can touch without ruining your system.

As I have not used the openSUSE LiveCD, I don’t know if it is possible to mount hard drives but that was never the intention of a LiveCD.

The idea of the LiveCD is to check out that all your hardware is working, e.g. wireless, screen, printer before committing yourself to installing on the hard drive.

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The partitions can be mounted in the Live-CD, with the mount command in a terminal window. But great care should be used, especially with the partition where the Windows OS resides (i.e., the Windows or WINNT folders). Unless you really know what you are doing, probably best to mount with read-only capability.

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Can anyone guide me through the process?

My etc/fstab file :


devpts  /dev/pts   devpts  mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc    /proc      proc    defaults 0 0
sysfs   /sys       sysfs   noauto 0 0

Thank you.

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okay, I learnt how to mount my hard drive…
thanks!