I'm having troubles mounting my windows drives and haven't seen a scenario like mine posted:

I have three drives. 1 ide for linux only. 2ide in RAID0 for windows only....when i boot, linux boots, if I press esc at the right time during bios, i get boot menu and can select the proper device to boot windows.

windows and linux are not on the same drive.....can i mount my windows drive from linux? I would like to to transfer files between OS's with out using a second computer to temporarliy store files while I reboot my other box.


Thanks,
CK


sorry, i posted this in newbie too...thought it looks better here.

as long as kernel support is enabled you can use the mount command..

you need to know the partition dev name for it

mkdir /win

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win

ok, thanks. How can I find the dev name for my windows drives? Would this be the volume name given during partitioning?

Thanks,
CK

use fdisk in linux and check each hard drive

here is how to access the drives in fdisk

primary master = /dev/hda
primary slave = /dev/hdb
secondary master = /dev/hdc
secondary slave = /dev/hdd

fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1870.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1045 8393931 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1046 1823 6249285 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 1824 1870 377527+ 82 Linux swap

Command (m for help): q





as you can see on this system windows is /dev/hda1

If your linux drive is the primary drive (booting) the the windows drive is either the slave or the secondary master. Either way it would be hdb1

on the makedir (md) the proper place to mount the drive would be /mnt/windows

that is just a convention

all right, I finally have something I think will work.... I'm at work on ssh so i don't know for sure what I will see.

My board has 4 ide ports and my win drives are on raid which is the 3rd and 4th ide identified as hdG1, I didn't go down the alphabet far enough before. I was able to mount, but saw a bunch of crap with the # dir command.

thanks for the help... between these answers and trial and error I got it.

Now i have to figure out where all those rpms and tarballs I keep installing go to.?

most stuff will go to /usr or /usr/local

the tarballs will usually create a folder where it's at ( the current folder)

the rpms will also put things like config files if needed in /etc/ somewhere, and normally they will install a link in the user path.