[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 03/30/2000 9:42:46 AM Central Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > How can I detect my Window's drivers under Mandrake?
> > >
> > >
> > > 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession-
> > > A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission'
> > > -Rush 'Mission'
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > > Rasputin
> > > http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html
> >
> > You don't. You have to use the drivers written for your hardware that
> > are specific to Linux. For example, if you want to use your video card
> > and monitor under Linux, you generally have to have XFree86 and an
> > Xserver loaded on your machine. These are drivers written for the Linux
> > enviroment by the open source community. If you look at your video
> > card's manufacturer website, you'll notice that they generally say they
> > only support Windows or maybe Macintosh computers.
> >
> > Hope that helps, Michael Holt
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> I guess what I meant was how much space does do I have-like the 'My Computer'
> icon for Windows.
>
> What I want to do is download a Linux friendly ISP, but I have to use
> Windows/AOL to do it and then transfer the file over to Linux and run it from
> there...
>
> How can I do this?
>
Use the 'mount' command in Linux.
$ man mount
will give you a good manual for using mount. You have to know the Unix name of
the partitions you want to mount. An example would be (as root)
mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/win
You have to create the directory "win" first.
-Stephen-
