I see others besides Steve answering, so I'll answer in some detail.
If you have a windows drive C: and a Drive F: and presumably some drives of
some sort in between, either logical or physical, you can mount them
automatically for Linux
For Mandrake 6.0 or 6.1 start the program linuxconf as root
Choose filesystems
Local
Add
then /dev/hda1 is C: and its mount point is /mnt/windows and type is vfat
What F: is depends on where what other partitions etc It might be, for
example
/dev/hdb5 (if it is the first extended partition on the second IDE drive)
mount point is whatever directory you specify. It is nice if that directory
is existing and empty when you set it as mount point
/mnt/wondows_f is a possibility
type is vfat
You can leave options alone unless you want to be able to read and write to
that windows drive as some user other than root. For specific examples on
making windows partitions writable for other users, check the mail
archives. There was good discussion on it in the past few days.
Civileme
P. S. It is also possible to do this by directly editing /etc/fstab, but it
is definitely not something I would recommend until you understand
filesystems a lot better. Even then, linuxconf is much safer, because it
will prompt you about oddities it can analyze.
Jesse Royall wrote:
> Steve.
> So I need to do the /mnt/windows everytime I restart Linux to have access
> to my windows drive then. Correct? Also, how do I navigate through dos?
> my files I need are on F: drive (under dos) and when I did that
> /mnt/windows it wrote everything to C: . This is not a problem however,
> it i have multiple files this could become a problem remembering what
> files I need to move over to Linux.
> Another thing. what about my zip drive. would it be easier to move my
> Linux files that I donwload to the zip dirve and mnt it and access the
> zip drive under linux or will that throw everything out since those disks
> a Vfat or whatever for windows?
>
> Appreciate the help
> Jess
>
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