Accessing files on another partition
 

I just downloaded Red Hat Linux 9.0 with every packet and im trying to browse files on my other partitions. Is this possible to do inside of red hat?


The reason i need to do this is because somehow hal.dll in the system32 folder of my windows xp install got deleted, so i need to put a new one in, or at least take it from my OTHER windows xp installation. Thanx in advance for any and all of ur help.

take a look at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=86491

that should solve your problems. when in doubt, search here and www.google.com/linux - between the two you're likely to find a solution

good luck

yes,you can access the other partitions once you have mounted them.
to mount your partitions,
1.find out the device drives of the partitions you want to mount using 'fdisk -l'('l' is a small L)
2.make a directory in /mnt folder using mkdir.example, 'mkdir /mnt/windows'
3.mount the partition like
mount -t vfat /dev/[device drive of the partition to be mounted,eg,hda1] /mnt/windows.
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vfat is what linux calls fat32 file systems etc.
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[pyr0ph0r1c@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# su
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# su
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# mkdir /rnnt/winxp
mkdir: cannot create directory `/rnnt/winxp': No such file or directory
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# mkdir /root/winxp
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /root/winxp
mount: /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /root/winxp
mount: /dev/hda1: unknown device
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /root/winxp
mount: /dev/hda3: unknown device
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# mkdir /rnnt/windows
mkdir: cannot create directory `/rnnt/windows': No such file or directory
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]#
[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]#

i tried all of that, and thats what i got back... what did i do wrong??? (sorry im such a n00b, first couple hours ever using linux :-p)

o, oops, i know its MNT not RNNT, i tried doing the same thing over again but using mnt instead of rnnt and it did nothing different

try this,
cat /proc/partitions
this will show all your partitions.then proceed as above.

[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1,
or too many mounted file systems

i think somehow it got mounted on "/"...:

[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# mount
/dev/hdc3 on / type ext3 (rw)
(etc.)

mEH?????? do i need to unmount it or something crazy like that?

are you sure its fat32 not ntfs which is the default in winxp? try "hwbrowser", it provides a graphical view of the disk partition infos, double check the partition type for /dev/hdc1

It just means that your root is mounted on /dev/hdc3
if u sucessfully mounted the windows drive the the output should have something like:
/dev/hdc1 on /root/winxp type vfat (rw)

its ntfs, sorry for not making that clear earlier, aight, so what do i do know that i know its ntfs?

i tried

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc3 /mnt/windows

but got this

mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

you cant mount ntfs that easily.
download and install the rpm for ntfs support.
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

damnit, aight, i screwed up, i downloaded the wrong ntfs version and installed. i then went back and tried to install the versoin i needed and it told me i already had the updated version... how do i uninstall the old version or just overwrite it with the new one???

[root@localhost pyr0ph0r1c]# rpm -ihv /home/pyr0ph0r1c/kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-8smp.athlon.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-20.9 (which is newer than kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-8) is already installed




DOH!!!