Hi everyone,

I'm fairly new to this site, and in fact to linux in particular. I'm trying to learn it to improve my marketability for my life/career as a programmer. Anyway, the problem is, my current job is that of a programmer for Windows applications. I still need windows on my laptop for this purpose, however, want to turn my desktop into a Linux box.

I've installed Suse 9.1 and am enjoying it; but some times I need documents on my laptop (Which is my always on primary pc) - how can I gain access to my WinXP laptop from the Linux Dist. that I'm running.

Again, I know that everyone is rolling their eyes about running windows, but I'm trying to learn; so I hope I don't offend anyone with this question.

Thanks in adavnce!!!
Charley

If you want access to the windows partition when using linux, you'll need to find out if your kernel has support for NTFS or FAT filesystems, and then find out which partition it is on. YAST should be able to tell you which partition and probably the filesystem too.

For the partition, it will be something like "hda2" but the number could be anthing, 1 3 5 , it just depends on how you chopped up the partitions.
Once you find out the filesystem, you can type this command as root

mount -t NTFS /dev/hda2 /mnt

Then the "c:" could be found at /mnt. Note that you'll have to change the 2 to whatever your number is and might have to change NTFS for FAT depending on which you chose when you installed windows.

If I mis-interpreted the question, post again and I'll try and figure it out.

Hey,

I think that answers my question. Like I said, I'm fairly new to the linux system; and am just trying to learn it right now. Someone put me onto this msg board. I was informed that a lot of very helpful people stop by; and once again it proves to be correct.

Thanks again for everything!