[UCLA-LUG] Help - CDROM

[witten@linux.ucla.edu]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:14:22AM -0800, BRANDON LI wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to read the mp3 files in windows fat32 partition from
> linux?

Type this as root:
mkdir /mnt/windows

That creates a mount point where your fat32 files will be available in
Linux. Then, edit /etc/fstab as root and add the following line:

/dev/hda1   /mnt/windows   vfat   defaults   0   0

That should mount your Windows partition automatically everytime Linux
boots.

Note that /dev/hda1 is the first partition of your primary IDE master. If
Windows is on a different drive/partition, then you will need to change the
line accordingly. (/dev/hda2 is primary IDE slave, /dev/hdb1 is secondary
IDE master, /dev/hdb2 is secondary IDE slave, etc. If you have SCSI, then
it's something different altogether.)

I think that distributions should do all this stuff automatically for you
during installation. Unfortuantely, none of them besides Mandrake does this
currently.

> 
> Thank you very much,
> Brandon

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