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Old 10-07-2004, 06:44 AM   #1
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Question 2 hardrives how do I acces the second one?


Just installad Mandrake 10 and everything is working just fine... (i thought switching to linux was going to be hard)

All my life I been working whit windows so it takes sometime to adjust.

"home" is the sametihing as "C:/" , right? When I had windows I had 4 HD's, C, D, E and F.

C and E where physical drives and D and F where partions....

Now in Mandrake how do I acces the second Hardrive?
Is there a way to get the "My Computer" style?

And someother questions...
wich is the common mp3 player for os linux users? (I just WinAmp befor)
is it possible to get ICQ to work? (I found something called IICQm but I couldent install it)

Well by the look of it, i must say it looks relly good, the installation where simple and quik and all my harware is working just fine.
 
Old 10-07-2004, 07:35 AM   #2
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Welcome to Linux!

OK, to try and answer your questions in some kind of order:

The Linux directory structure you see as a user isn't based around drives. This means that /home isn't really the equivalent of c:, it's more like 'My Documents' - a personal area for your files only. The actual physical drives are listed as hda, hdb, hdc etc. (for IDE, for SCSI and external drives substitute s for h), all in /dev. A number will then follow this, indicating the partition on the drive. So, for example, the first partition on the first IDE hard drive would be /dev/hda1, and the third partition on the second drive would be /dev/hdb3. The way these map on to the directory structure is controlled by the /etc/fstab file. It can look a bit confusing, but if you post a copy of it on here (as root, type cat /etc/fstab at a command prompt), I should be able to help explain it all (and find out where your second drive can be accessed from).

You might be able to find software somewhere to give you a more Windows-like view of your system, but personally I'd advise sticking with things as they are. It's a lot more logical once you get used to it.

One very popular MP3 player is XMMS. Assuming you're using the KDE desktop it'll be in the K menu under Multimedia / Audio Player.
It's *very* similar to WinAmp (you can even use WinAmp skins with it!)
I don't know about getting ICQ to work, but I'm sure it can be done, and someone who does know is likely to read this thread soon

Hope this helps!
 
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Mandrake usually automatically configures windows drives. Open up a file browser and look in /mnt directory and you might see something like /mnt/win_c. If not then you will need to manually setup access. To see how the drives are partitioned in a console window use the su command to login as root and enter the following command:
fdisk -l /dev/hda (that is a small L. )
and
fdisk -l /dev/hdb

linux device IDs for IDE hard drives
/dev/hda - 1st IDE controller master
/dev/hdb - 1st IDE controller slave
/dev/hdc - 2nd IDE controller Master
/dev/hdd - 2nd IDE controller slave
and so on...

linux does not have seperate "drives". Everything falls under /(root). Your home directory even though it might be a seperate partition is /home. Removeable media like cdrom drives and floppies are located under /mnt.
 
Old 10-07-2004, 07:41 AM   #4
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thanx alot...

how about network? Is it possible to brows the local area network like in windows, or they are completley incompatible whit one another.

My father is using win xp home on his machine, can acces that computer and brows the files he is shaing?
 
Old 10-08-2004, 07:08 AM   #5
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You can, yes. You'll probably need to set up a Samba client (and possibly server) but I don't really know all that much about it. There's plenty on this site about Samba though.
 
Old 10-08-2004, 09:46 AM   #6
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For your ICQ needs you can use kopete which is loaded by default with 10 or you can load up gaim which I like but either one of those should get you going with ICQ.
 
  


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