-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 November 2003 06:31, Graeme Willox wrote: > where someone described how to mount the windows drives, but I still > need to find out how to do things like have this drive mount each time I > start up Yes, its not easy getting started. If you google for linux newbie you can find some good resources, that's how I got started. /etc/rc.local is a kind of end-of-boot script where you can put commands you want done as root after each boot. You can only edit it as root, since you don't want normal users being able to wreck up your system. > how to mount the other partition on my hard drive, and whether First you need to find out which partition you are wanting and which drive it is on. The partition naming is like /dev/hda1 for example, which is the first partition on /dev/hda. FAT32 is supported by the 'vfat' filesystem in Linux. You need to make an empty directory somewhere as the mount point. You have to do all this as root, but once you get sorted out, you'll find your need for root powers dies right down. mkdir /mnt/win fdisk /dev/hda p This will get you something like this: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 4734 37921432+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 4735 4864 1044225 82 Linux swap q gets you out of fdisk again Identify which partition is your Windows one (I don't have one, but you should) and issue something like this (change the /dev/hda2 to your partition): mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/win -t vfat Now when you go to look in /mnt/win ls -l /mnt/win instead of an empty directory you should see your Windows stuff. If it worked, paste the mount command into /etc/rc.local to get it done every boot. (Handy tip on pasting from a console, highlight the text with the mouse, click on the window where you want to paste, hit the middle mouse button (or left and right together on a 2-button mouse) to paste. ) > there's already something like Windows Explorer / Xtree (being an old > MS-DOS user from way back. - Am I allowed to say MS-DOS on this list? > ) :-) If you installed KDE, Konqueror is a really nice explorer replacement, for file management and web browsing. If Gnome, then Nautilus is the equivalent. mc (Midnight Commander) is a console type equivalent if you have it installed. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xvEEjKeDCxMJCTIRAlmMAJ0carHDidgdQO2Alz4PCX6tT5tUDACfd6Im 5G8SGWa2VvVaS1eWTk3vkpo= =zSrv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
