accessing fat 32 drives?

[genuine143]

hello fellow linux users....

I need help with those two questions please,

1- I am a new linux user using mandrake 8, i have a disk partition (fat 32) which has music occupying 3 Gb of space. I would like to know if there is any way that i can enter this partition (using a program tool etc.) without affecting any of these files so that i can play my music on my linux.

2- I have been hearing about rpms for the mandrake distribution for different types of programs. where can i find those rpms?

thanks guys.

I am a one week old user today !! :D

[tubby]

for installing programs with mandrake look into urpmi because it will help you avoid 'dependency hell' as people like to put it. I don't know the links off hand urpmi.org (I think), and I know google has a fair bit.

[serz]

mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/win

remplace hdax with your win partition, and make sure that /mnt/win exists.