music files on my windows xp with my mandrake linux

xhatex · 04-11-2004, 02:18 PM

i have just installed mandrake linux 10.0 community, and i was hoping for a way to be able to either copy and move to my mandrake or share the files between windows xp and linux.

Pauli · 04-11-2004, 03:11 PM

You could make another partition which is fat32 and put the things you want available on both on this partition. Linux can safely write to fat32, but cannot safely WRITE to NTFS, but it can read just fine.

If you want music, thats easy to do, but if you want to use documents and edit them you would have to make a fat32 partition and use that.

xhatex · 04-11-2004, 07:40 PM

my hd that windows is on is already fat32 is there a way that i can just get mandrake to read them from windows or no.

and does linux have trouble with certain file types like wpa?

Brain Drop · 04-11-2004, 09:26 PM

With Mandrake 9.2 it is done automagicaly you just go to /mnt/windows to see the files. If it is not there then you can go to the control center and mount points i think to have it make the mount point.

Pauli · 04-11-2004, 09:29 PM

wpa? fk is that? you mean wma? I dunno. Ive never seen a wpa file.

I dunno about mandrake, it may come with wma support by default, I dont know. You may have to get a plugin, but it should have mp3 support by default.