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[VirusMrD]

OK im new to this linux thing but like it so far, I have Fedora Core 1 and I was trying to figure out if there was a way to acess my files on the WIndows XP partion of my hard drive for use in Linux i.e. ogg files etc... Does anyone know how to do this or is there even a way to do it?

Another problem i am having is that Linux does not seem to reconize my modem... but wondows XP has absolutely no problem with it says cannon connect error 2 and somthing about SMB?

Apreciate any help,

- VirusMrD

[Trillian]

Originally Posted by VirusMrD

OK im new to this linux thing but like it so far, I have Fedora Core 1 and I was trying to figure out if there was a way to acess my files on the WIndows XP partion of my hard drive for use in Linux i.e. ogg files etc... Does anyone know how to do this or is there even a way to do it?

You could google first.
You'll have to mount your ntfs (XP) partition, in order to get a decent look at them. That's the first part, then the thing with accessing your files, writing to ntfs partitions, and all that crap begins.

Read this thread at linuxquestions: (link removed by twistedcranium, against Terms of Use)
It explains a whole bunch 'bout mounting ntfs partitions.

Different thing you can do, is taking look at your fstab. You'll find it in /etc/fstab
This is the place where devices are mounted, and if you wanna mount your winXP partition here, add something like...

/dev/hda2 /winxp ntfs defaults,umask=000 0 0

to your fstab.
This mounts /dev/hda2 to /mnt/xp. If your windows partition is /dev/hda2, the first part is correct. The second part, /mnt/xp is the dir where the partition will be mounted on. make sure that dir exists.

Well, good luck on this, and post the outcome.

Another problem i am having is that Linux does not seem to reconize my modem... but wondows XP has absolutely no problem with it says cannon connect error 2 and somthing about SMB?

This information is way too vague. Try this link ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...++&btnG=Search) , or post the entire error message.

[twistedcranium]

VirusMrD: Can you tell us if the Windows partition is formatted in FAT32 or NTFS? This will make a difference when mounting and you'll use 'vfat' instead of 'ntfs' as Trillian mentioned above.

And since I removed the competing link, here is a replacement:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.0

[VirusMrD]

my windows XP is ntsf

[VirusMrD]

Ok. so i kind of unserstand what you are saying and I have modified my fstab file as follows but it still does not seem to work, when I reboot and its runs all the boot programs and loads up to the log in screen it automatically goes into detailed vewi mode and gives me a few errors saying something about ntfs not supported by kernel. I wish I could tel you more but it goes by so quickly i cant read it all.

My original fstab looks like:
LABEL=/
/ ext3 defaults 1 1 none
/dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none
/proc proc defaults 0 0 none
/dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

and my new one looks like:

LABEL=/
/ ext3 defaults 1 1 none
/dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none
/proc proc defaults 0 0 none
/dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs defaults,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Does anyone see anything wrong with this? I created the "winxp" folder manually in the "mnt" directory? I have also set the rights to the winxp folder accesible to my personal user account. Any Idea's?

[twistedcranium]

Since it doesn't look like the kernel that you are using is supporting NTFS reading, then read through this page to get an understanding of what is needed:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/compile.html

Its not a trivial process and can be confusing, I personally have yet to compile my own kernel, so I would suggest that you read through this first to see what you would be up against if you decide to do it.

[VirusMrD]

Ok than for the help after several days of extreme agrivation it finnaly payed off i now have NTSF supprt on linxu and can get to my XP partition. Still havent fixed my modem issue but im working on it.

Thanx for the help,

- VirusMD