[UCLA-LUG] Help - CDROM

[Dan Helfman]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 09:43:57PM -0800, Jordan Mendler wrote:
> 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).

The above solution will work if you actually want to *copy* the files on a
Windows partition to the Linux partition. But that is unnecessary, as Linux
can read and write to Windows partitions just fine.

> 
> -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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