[UCLA-LUG] Help - CDROM

[Jordan Mendler]

well actually brandon, if you are reading your windows partition you may need a special mount option, this is what i would do:

1) mkdir /mp3s (do this to make a directory on linux where you will keep your mp3s, call it whatever you desire).

2) mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt (this will mount your win partiontion to the /mnt directory, please change /dev/hda1 to whatever you windows partition is named).

now /mnt/ resembles the comprable of c:\ in windows.

3) cp -R /mnt/*.mp3 /mp3s (this will copy every file with the mp3 extention from all your subdirectories to /mp3s on linux. please replace /mp3 with whatever directory you want to store your mp3s in, and /mnt  with whereever you mounted your win partition.)

4)now unmount your win partition and you are done:
umount /dev/hda1 (replace /dev/hda1/ with whatever your win partition is).

-Jordan

On Sun, 27 February 2000, witten@linux.ucla.edu wrote:

> 
> 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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