Not too sure what section to post this in, so please excuse the cross posting... also kinda hoping for some quick responses! Thanks.
OK, dig this... I've got a real PITA process of mounting a PC hard drive to the Mac OS X desktop, but what I'm hoping for some help with is automating this process a bit. Here's what I currently have to do:
1. Boot up with the PC disk attached an on. (I've got it as the primary master IDE in a B&W G3. OS X is on the factory installed UW SCSI 9gig disk.)
2. Make sure the root account is enabled. (obviously only have to do this once.)
3. Go to the Disk Utility app and look in Drive Setup to see what /dev/ the PC drive is on. In my case it's on /dev/disk0 which is actually /dev/disk0s1 for the mountable partition.
4. Open a Terminal and use 'su' to login as root (this is required to use the mount command later unfortunately).
5. mkdir /Volumes/PCDISK (this is the mount point for the mount command)
6. cd /Volumes
7. ls -l to make sure the permissions are correct. (I use 755 for my purposes).
8. mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/PCDISK
This process gets the drive mounted, but it doesn't show up on the desktop or in the GUI. In order to do that I have to either log out and log back in or I have to Force Quit or Relaunch the Finder. It's like the automounter doesn't know the disk is there or something. And of course everytime I reboot, this whole process has to be done again. It's such a pain! Does anyone have the skills to maybe write a little script or startup program so that OS X will mount the drive automatically at boot or login? Any help is appreciated.
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