[NBLUG/talk] linux help

[Dave Sisley]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 04:11:06PM -0700, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:23, Nat W wrote:
> 
> > Q4. i've got a lot of MP3's on my windos harddrive can
> > i run them on my linux box?
> 
> Sure!  With mount, you can mount your Windows partition and read from
> (possibly even write to) it.  Your /etc/fstab file should have a line in
> it like this:
> 
> /dev/hda1    /windows ntfs defaults,uid=icco,gid=icco 0 0
> 
> If you have fat32 filesystem and not NTFS, then change ntfs to vfat. 
> And don't forget to mkdir /windows if you don't have it.  If your
> primary username is not 'icco', change that to whatever as well.  The
> uid/gid just lets you access the Windows drive as your user, not only as
> root.


Quick question re:  Nat's Q4 -- He didn't say which version of winD'ohs
he is running.  I'm running XP on my desktop and thought that linux was
unable to read the winD'ohs partition in an XP box.

Has that changed?

-- Dave.