Hi peeps, New here and have a few ?'s for the advanced lot amoung ya.

I've Just installed Redhat 8.. Its quite slick and i like it. Everything is running now except for 2 problems :

1) I've partitioned my drive and i'm dual booting XP and Redhat. Is there any way i can still save files to my Win partition?? And is there any way i can "Map" to another Winxp box.... ie my server?

2) I've a Hercules Gametheatre XP. Its picked up as a Crystalclear Soundfusion.. I remember it doing this under XP before the drivers were installed. I've checked on the herc site and no Linux drivers

Anyone got theirs working yet?????


Cheers !!

Welcome to LQ, Evilone... interesting name you got there

1) Yep. It's called mounting. If you're running XP on a FAT partition, then it's really easy. If you're running XP on an NTFS partition, then it's much harder and quite possibly dangerous to your XP (but ofcourse, you don't need XP anymore... you've got Linux! ) Let's take things as if you're running XP on FAT. You need to:
a) make a directory on your Linux setup, such as /mnt/windows (it probably already exists... check it to see if you have any files there).
b) know the partition number that your XP sits on (probably /dev/hda1)
c) mount it! Easy: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
That is, presuming of course, that your XP is on FAT and that you have already created the directory. The likelihood is that your Windows partition will already be mounted for you, if you're running XP on FAT. I know I keep saying that, but it's a very imporant point!

1 cont) Mapping to another Windows box? You mean you want to see the files on your server, or you want your server to see you? If it's the former, then again, it's all about mounting. You would need to do this mount -t smbfs //server/share /mnt/directory-to-mount-onto. Again, the directory-to-mount-onto needs to exist already. There is a program called gnomba that is really useful if you're lazy, like myself, and can't be bothered to type all that in!

2) Have you tried running sndconfig? You need to have closed down your GUI (try pressing <CTRL>+<ALT>+<BackSpace>).

Good luck!

Nice one dood.. I sucsessfully managed to mount my servers Fat32 drive, which solves my problem of saving files in linux my win boxes can pick up, my local drive was NTFS 5 so i guess i'll trust you when you say if i mess with it i'll ruin it. (I do IT for a living so don't take me as a total newb, i pick up pretty fast).

Is there a way i can get this mounted from bootup?? Where are the start up files???

I'm gonna be trying the Sndconfig in about 10 mins when i get out of X..


Again, thanks !!

Ok just as an edit, i tried sndconfig, running as root and No X running, nothing happened?? Where is sndconfig?? I searched for it in X and no hits

Yep. You need to check into the file /etc/fstab. The layout of the file is fairly easy to follow, and if in doubt, there are always the man pages (i.e. 'man fstab' and 'man mount' should help). And the situation regarding NTFS may have changed, but basically the 'drivers' for it are not perfect. They're really quite good for reading stuff off an NTFS drive, but not too great at writing. There is a possibility of a cockup, however remote that may be (not used NTFS for a long time, so haven't really kept up to speed on NTFS drivers).

Perhaps it wasn't installed. Try looking on your install CDs. If that's a no-go, then you can probably download it from RH or RPMFIND.