[Cyberguy2]

How can i mount a windows drive (hda1) on linux (red hat linux 9)
I created 3 directories WinC, WinD and WinE in /mnt as advised by my friend and gave the command /mnt/WinC/dev/hda1 after entering root. The terminal said that no such file or directory exists.
Am i giving the wrong command or there is any other problem and is there any other way of mounting a drive.

[linuxphile]

If your Windows partitions are NTFS you will need the Kernel module for ntfs support found here: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/redhat9.html. With that module installed you can issue "mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/WinC" or if the partition is fat32 "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/WinC"

HTH

[Cyberguy2]

Thank You linuxphile i use fat32 and i will try mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/WinC
I have yet another problem i have installed red hat linux 9 and found that it doesnt play mp3 files (XMMS). Has red hat linux removed support for mp3 files i think so since mp3 files used to play well on linux 7.4. If i want to play mp3 in linux what i have to do. I have the 7.4 installation cd. Should i install XMMS from it. Will it work with new version of linux. Hope u will help me out. I again thank u for helping me.

[linuxphile]

If you're machine is connected to the net you can do "rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/xmms-mp3/xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1.i386.rpm" as root and it will install mp3 capabilities for xmms.

Red Hat does not support mp3 playback due to licensing issues. RPMs for mp3 compability are provided by others for all recent distributions.

[Cyberguy2]

Thank you your command for mounting windows drive worked perfectly and XMMS also worked but i have yet another problem. My printer HP Deskjet 3745 isnt detected by linux so to print linux documents (from ghost view (PS) files) i have to convert them from PS to PDF and then print from windows how can i make my printer run on linux.
I hope that i am not boring u by such silly questions I am an intermediate user of windows but a beginner of linux.

[gotrootdude]

Here's how to make that printer work in linux:
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php#HPLIP

If you need to, set it as a DJ3600 backend as shown on this page: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/prod...ed.php#service


Most linux distros are very good at automatically setting up printers, but HP printers are notoriously difficult due to HP's use of odd backends.. Same for HP scanners..

[Cyberguy2]

Thank u i was able to configure my printer and everything is now fine but do reply to my new thread disk maintainence in linux