On Friday 11 January 2002 10:41 pm, Charles Muller wrote: > Hello All, > > I am a newcomer to Linux and to this list. I hope that you will not be > bothered by my extremely elementary questions. > > I have installed Mandrake 8.1 in a dual boot with Windows 2000 on my Dell > desktop. The first thing I would like to do is get some of my previous text > documents transferred from the Windows sector into Linux. But with the KDE > file manager, I cannot see into the Windows area. Can someone advise me on > how to do this? > > Thank you. >
make a directory, maybe /mnt/windows then issue the following command mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows (assuming your windows is on partition hda1) Then your windows disk should be at /mnt/windows do a ls /mnt/windows to see it. Iam sure there are other ways! -- Gerald -- Registered Linux User 255245 Register at http://counter.li.org
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