(clug-talk) Simple questions ...

[Dave Bourassa]

Hi all.

At the risk of displaying my obvious newbiness, and incurring the quick "rtfm" solution, can someone point me in the right direction with the following directions? I've got lots of manuals and books and magazines, which I've been reading but sometimes it's nice to just be able to ask a direct question and get a direct answer. Here's the scoop ...

1. How do you do a "dir f:" command in linux ?

It's only one simple little question, but I've not been able to find the equivalent in linux.

I'm running RH 8.0 and I've been playing around with it. Actually thought I'd been doing quite well, but I've got a pretty decent box to run it on. Some of you might have seen it at the last instalfest at Nexus. It's got a p4-2.4gh-512mb- spec. I have a removeable C: with 20gb on it, a D: that is a 12X DVD drive, and an E: that is a 40x12x48 LitOn CD-RW. They all work great.

What I've been trying to do is access an F: that is a fat32 formatted 6.4gb common "data disk", that I wish to be available to my RH configuration and to my WinXP-Pro configuration, when I pull the RH C: out and plug in my WinXP C: (80 gb Western Digital).

With Windows, I can open up explorer and check out c: and d: and etc, or go to dos (a window, in XP) and type "dir x: /w" or whatever. I'm very comfortable in Dos or in Windows, but I don't know all the equivalent commands in linux.

Maybe I need to do something with Samba to accomplish this ?? I don't know, but I'm sure lots of people in this group can point me in several different directions that will all help me.

My New Years Resolution last year was to get into linux and here I am. I haven't given up, and I'm still enthused about learning it. One of the things that I did accomplish was setting up my C: as a removeable drive so that I could plug my OS of choice in and boot accordingly. With Windows on my C: I have long been able to do a "ghost" image which I do frequently for obvious reasons. With Linux on my C: I ran into a problem in that testing the backup seemed to indicate the backup was not a reliable image. I've been able to succeed with Ghost 2003, however, albeit with a minor tweak to get the image up after it was made. It seems it needed a boot disk to boot from on the first run after imaging in order to correct something in the mbr or the lilo config. I'm not sure which, but booting from a disk did succeed in fixing the boot process on the HD so that the next time booting off the HD was successful. So now I can make a backup of my Linux C: and then play with it to my hearts content, without fear of trashing something and not having a backup.

Progress sometimes occurs in small steps. But I'm running off at the mouth, so I better quit while I'm ahead. See you all at the meeting on Wed.

(I've got my browser (mozilla 1.1) set, as far as I can tell, to send this in text mode, so if it fails and sends it in html, please let me know).

TIA.
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