To solve the problem of reading your windows partitions under linux you can mount them via the mount command. Heres how you do it:
first, make a directory called /windows (you have to be root to do this)
mkdir /windows
then mount your windows partition under linux (this assumes that windows is the first partition, if its not, change the number in hda1 to reflect which partition it is)
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /windows
the problem with doing it this way is you have to remount all the time and the only user who can write to the drive is root. For more information on how to set up your drive to mount itself everytime you boot and allowing others besides root to write to the drive, check out
http://seva.chicago.il.us/writings/a...alg-vfat.shtml
To explain your other question, DHCP means that your IP (or internet protocol) number is given to you by another computer, which probably means it changes often, but it doesn't really matter on your end. Static means that your IP address never changes. If your using a static IP address you should enter that into netconfig. I'm not familiar with DSL entirely but I think it should have a way of finding out the IP address if it is choosen through DHCP (which I believe means something like Dynamic Host Control Protocol). The Gateway and Netmask options would probably be setup fairly similar to this Gateway:127.0.0.1 (unless your on a network, this basically says that your computer gets its websites from itself, through your hardware) Netmask is going to be one of 4 numbers depending upon your IP address
If your IP adress is between 10.0.0.0 and 10.255.255.255 your netmask is 255.0.0.0 If its between 172.16.0.0 and 172.31.255.255 your netmask is 255.255.0.0 and if its between 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.255.255 your netmask is 255.255.255.0
Hope this helps.
gilkyboy
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