A couple of easy(I think) questions

[richard_martin]

I have an old fat partition with all my old files on it. It is still intact and everything but how do I access it from inside linux? It used to just apear on the desktop as hda4 or something but not now.

Any recommendations for free cd burning software?

I have a windows network, can I access the windows drives from inside linux as in, open a movie from a windows drive?

Thanks very much for any help.

[Icarus]

The hard drive needs to be mounted, maybe it was recently removed from the fstab?

I'd like to find some good free CD-burning software also :)

You will need to setup SAMBA to have your Linux talk to the Windows machines and visa-versa. Don't ask me how, I'm still trying to get it to work :p

[richard_martin]

I have just installed red hat 7.2, and I mean its not been there since the start. But a long time ago I installed linux and they were all on the desktop, so how does one mount this drive?

[scanez]

Originally posted by richard_martin:
<STRONG>I have just installed red hat 7.2, and I mean its not been there since the start. But a long time ago I installed linux and they were all on the desktop, so how does one mount this drive?</STRONG>
To mount

mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /diretory_to_mount_in (usually something like /mnt/windows)

Nothing beats cdrecord for cd burning. All other GUI burning software uses it to do the actual burning.

You will need Samba as already suggested for your last question.

[richard_martin]

get the error

mount: mount point /mnt/windows does not exist

[bdg1983]

cd /

ls -l /mnt

If you don't see 'windows', then

mkdir /mnt/windows

and try again

[bdg1983]

Also search the forums here for 'Samba' as I'm sure you'll find some help.

[richard_martin]

thanks, that worked now

now i need a movie player, divx and this samba.

[richard_martin]

is there any way to set it up to mount the drive automatically everytime I boot?

[mrBen]

Yup, just add an entry in your /etc/fstab file.

eg
/dev/hda4 /mnt/windows vfat default 0 1

Should work fine. (Change the drive location and mount point to the ones you want. If vfat doesn't work try msdos)

HTH