You could try "fdisk -l" at the prompt to find the partition that windows resides on.
[michael@edge~]$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 96 771088+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 97 162 530145 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 163 228 530145 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 229 1245 8169052+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 229 294 530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 295 1245 7638876 83 Linux
As you can see, /dev/hda1 is a fat23 partition
you can then use (as root)
"mkdir /mnt/win95"
and then mount it
"mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95"
mount should auto detect the filesystem type for you.
If the previous suggestion of using
"mount /mnt/cdrom"
does not work, which it should, then try to determine exactly where the cdrom is, IE
/dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd.
/dev/hda is most likely you ide harddrive (assuming you are not using scsi drives)
you could then try each one in turn,
"mount /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom"
replacing X with each of "b", "c", "d" until it mounts.
For info
======
/dev/hda is your "primary master"
/dev/hdb is your "primary slave"
/dev/hdc is your "secondary master"
/dev/hdd is your "secondary slave"
File type for most cdrom are iso9660
IE: mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660
Michael.
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:41, you wrote:
> usually you use mdir, mcopy, m... have a look in the docs
> Lionel
>
> --- Neil Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running Redhat 7.0 and I'm unable to access my
> > MS-Windows partition or my CD-ROM drive from my
> > command prompt. My documentation only gives
> > instructions on how to do this from within X-Windows,
> > but I'm assuming I can also do this from the prompt
> > (??).
> >
> > I need to do this cos I've got the latest version of
> > XFree86 stored on CD ready to be installed....but I
> > can't access it!! Aaaarrgghh...
> > Any helpers?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Neil M.
> >
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