view windows files?

[krehbiel5]

ok i new and i jsut installed Mandrake lin4win (somthing like that) on my machine.

What i am windering is is there any way for me to view my windows files when im running linux?

Ive mostly been jsut messing with GNOME since it seems fun and easy

[jetblackz]

Most modern Linux would auto-mount Windows.

/mnt/win_c
etc.

You can view text files, Web pages, graphics and PDF. Beyond them, you need a proper proggy like StarOffice to view Word doc, for example.

[Linuxcool]

Did you check gnome's desktop for any icon that would allow you to mount the windows partition? If there isn't one, there is one thing you could try. I don't know if it will work. It worked on an old version of gnome. Right click on the desktop and see if there is a choice to 'Rescan Devices '. If there is, click on it and see if any new icons appear on the desktop. One of them could be for the windows partition. But this may only work if the partition has an entry in the /etc/fstab file.

You could try to mount the windows partition with the mount command. Like this:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o ro. First make sure you have a /mnt/windows directory. If you don't, run mkdir /mnt/windows. After you mount the partition, run ls /mnt/windows to see the root directory of windows.