[RiViT]

I tried, but I do not know which driver my toshiba 2200 series modem uses. This is used by Road Runner...also is there a way to get my mp3's from my C; drive which is what windows is on. If there is could I have a step by step?

[codejockey]

Your C: drive should be accessible from Linux, and you should be able to copy anything you like. You will need to know the following info:

(1) the partition where your C: drive resides (according to Linux). You can determine this by using the Linux fdisk command to print the partition table. For example, as root, give the following commands:

fdisk /dev/hda
p
q

and take note of the output. Pay attention to the filesytem type; if you see FAT32 or vfat or ntfs, that is likely a Windoze partition. Note the device in the left column for each of these partitions.

This assumes that your C: drive is on the first IDE hard drive (or only IDE hard drive) in your system. If it is on the second IDE hard drive, you would use /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hda.

(2) the filesystem type of your C: drive (likely FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS). You can get this information from the Linux fdisk command (above) if you don't already know it.

(3) the location (in Linux) where you want your C: drive to appear (you can create a new directory for this purpose).

As root, use the following commands (substituting the correct device, filesystem type and directory as needed):

mkdir /WIN98C
mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /WIN98C

If you are running Windoze 2000 and using NTFS, you might need:

mkdir /WIN2000
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdaX /WIN2000

It is also possible to have Linux mount your Windoze partitions automagically for you (and most distributions do this) by creating the proper entries in /etc/fstab. You can also do this manually once you've gotten things working properly. See the fstab and mount man pages for details.

Sorry this is abbreviated. Hope it helps, anyway.

[RiViT]

Ok if Im using windows me can I use those commands? and also How would I get my usb cable modem to work on linux?

[codejockey]

You should still be able to use those commands even if you are running Windoze ME. Linux really doesn't care what other OSes you are running, as long as it understands the filesystem types the OS is using. AFAIK, Windoze ME doesn't use anything so exotic that Linux doesn't understand it.

You might want to change the directory name you create to something like /WINMEC or whatever makes sense to you, but the name itself can be anything (you could use Ralph, for example, for all the difference it would make to Linux).

Your USB cable modem is another matter entirely, and probably best left to another post.

Hope this helps.

[RiViT]

Ok, how do I know what mounts to use "/dev/hdax/" can that be different on windoze me? If so how can I access the information concerning this? Like just saying what hda it uses. Thanks again for your help

[codejockey]

You can check the output from the Linux fdisk command to see how Linux views your partition table. For example, here is the output from running fdisk /dev/hda on my system (note: my configuration is likely more complicated than yours):

ROOT: 1 /root-> fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 39704.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39704 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 6096 3072352+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 6097 39704 16938432 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 6097 20319 7168360+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 20320 21843 768064+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 21844 24891 1536160+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 24892 25152 131512+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 25153 29216 2048224+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda10 29217 32264 1536160+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda11 32265 34296 1024096+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda12 34297 38752 2245792+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda13 38753 39704 479776+ 83 Linux native

Command (m for help): q

ROOT: 2 /root->

Notice that the /dev/hda1 line shows that this partition is bootable (the '*' in the Boot column) and has a filesystem type of WIN95 FAT32. This is my C: partition under Windoze. To mount this partition under Linux I would use the following commands (assuming the /WIN98C directory did not already exist):

mkdir /WIN98C
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /WIN98C

I should then be able to access anything on my C: drive.

What about the /dev/hda2 line? This is an extended partition (note the filesystem type of WIN95 Ext'd). I have to specify which "logical drive" (as Windoze calls them) from my extended partition that I want to mount. On my system, I have only one logical drive in my extended partition (drive D) which is referenced by the line beginning with /dev/hda5 (primary partitions are numbered 1-4; extended begin at 5). To mount my D: drive under Linux I would use the following commands (assuming /WIN98D directory already exists):

mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /WIN98D

Hope this helps.

[RiViT]

I will give it a try. Thanks for your help I appeciate it.

[RiViT]

Ok I did the create a directory.

mkdir /WIN98C mount -t vfat /dev/hda1/WIN98C

is this right?

said action command. Did I make a mistake? Cause I don't know where to look for it at.

[codejockey]

I think maybe I wasn't very clear (sorry!). I should have specified that each line was a separate command. From your post, I suspect you
may have run the two commands together, which undoubtedly confused Linux and didn't do what you wanted. Because Linux got confused, you may not have created the directory.

I also notice that sometimes spacing gets funky when I post here, and it's not always obvious where the space between words is supposed to be. In case the spacing might have messed you up, I've replaced the blank spaces in each command with 5 periods so you can see what I was trying to say:

mkdir...../WIN98C
mount.....-t.....vfat...../dev/hda1...../WIN98C

Try it this way (one command per line, each command followed by hitting enter):

mkdir /WIN98C
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /WIN98C

If you don't see any error messages, try:

mount

which should show you something like this in the output:

/dev/hda1 on /WIN98C type vfat (rw)

If you see this, you can cd to /WIN98C and start checking out your files.

Hope this helps.