music on xmms off a usb key
i'm running DSL off a 128MB USB key, but I can't figure out how to play music from (a)my hard drive (if possible) and (b) my usb disk
got any ideas? |
Can you see your hard drive(s) in /dev? What does the following command yield?
Code:
ls /dev/hd* |
i already have xmms and
Code:
ls /dev/hd* where x is a letter a-h and y is a number 1-20 except on /dev/hdh, it only goes through 9 all of these are in the color purple, except for a few in turqouise, which are each letter's 17-20 :confused: |
Does the output from ls -l /dev/hd* match the partitions on your hard disk? It should do.
If you type Code:
mount Code:
mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/harddrive |
the command mount turns up:
Code:
/dev/root on / type ex2 (rw) |
What this means is
Code:
/dev/root on / type ex2 (rw) Code:
/dev/hda on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro) Code:
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw, size=96964k) What this all means is that your actual hard drives don't appear. I would expect them to be /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2.... and so on for as many partitions as you have. try Code:
mkdir /tmp/hd |
i'm trying to mount /dev/hdc1, but it isn't working. it said i needed to be root, so i used the command "su" (without quotes) and it asked for a password. i never set up a root password with DSL. so what do i do?
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Hmm. Not entirely sure. Is there a default password for DSL?
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not that i know of, couldn't find one on the DSL website
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ok - using the sudo su command, i got to be root without a password :confused: and when i use the command
Code:
mount /dev/hdc1 /tmp/hd mount: you must specify the filesystem type |
OK it looks like you'll have to specify the filesystem type manually. Try first
Code:
mount -t auto /dev/hdc1 /tmp/hd Code:
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /tmp/hd |
ok - i tried the first one and it said
Code:
/dev/hdc1: Input/output error Code:
root@ttyp9[dsl]#mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc1 /tmp/hd |
OK....is the partition formatted in FAT by any chance? If so try -t vfat as the fileysystem type option.
You might try using fdisk to check that you are trying to access the right disk: Code:
fdisk /dev/hdc If there aren't any, try the same thing on /dev/hdd |
it's NTFS
i used Code:
fdisk /dev/hdc and for the rest (hdd-hdz), it says it is unable to open |
Try /dev/hdb?
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