Linux....please help me.?

i,ve installed linux in my last H drive(xp is on c drive)....when i boot from linux how to see the files of other drive(d,f,g)...or could u say how to see the files on other drives??????

Linux....please help me.?
You installed linux on Your last partition ...


First of all it would be nice to tell us what distro You have installed, do You use kde or gnome, and do You have ATA or SATA hdd?





anyway ... If You are using KDE in konqueror type media://


and press enter. That should help ... (I will help You if You write some more informations)
Reply:"Samba" is nearly the defacto standard for accessing windows drives from linux. As a previous poster stated, Ubuntu installs it by default.
Reply:you may need to install an ntfs driver. its not that hard, then to see the other drives, you can use the mount command


just use man mount to see how to use it


or you can edit fstab and have those drives automounted during bootup
Reply:it depends on what linux distribution u have... some distribution of linux put them in /media and some put them in /mnt. or mount them manually..


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wish you luck
Reply:You will need a third partition that you can access from both drives/operating systems. So, you would need to re-format the drive, with three partitions.
Reply:Well Ubuntu and most modern distributions come with NTFS read write support. You may need to install it or enable it. In Ubuntu when you boot it will automatically detect all drives and drop a link on your desktop. VectorLinux SOHO is the same.
Reply:In order to see files on other drives, you have to mount the drive. In linux, you should know what the hd (device) name is and how linux sees it. you have to dedicate a folder on the linux drive to use as a mount point. then, you issue the mount command in a terminal screen. The syntax is "mount -t (fstype) /dev/hda /mnt/otherdrive" where (fstype) is the filesystem type on the drive (might be ntfs) "/dev/hda" is replaced with however your system sees your original drive, and "/mnt/otherdrive" is the folder you created in linux.





Once you do this, your xp drive will appear as though it's located in the folder /mnt/otherdrive and you can access the files and folders just as you would any other.

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