Ok, heres my problem. I mounted WinXP by typing mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt and it mounted correctly. The only problem is I dont know how to access my files. How would I get something from my desktop. I know how to copy it when I find it, the only problem is finding it.

TheHunted

Uhhh, the contents of your harddrive should be in the dir /mnt then...

cd /mnt
ls

For your desktop i think its something like:
cd /mnt/Documents and Settings/Username/Desktop


Should try mounting into a folder in /mnt next time as the /mnt dir has other things in it also.

cd /mnt
mkdir windows
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

You can also put the configuration in et/fstab. So, you do not need to worry about mounting each time you boot. It will do automatically.

Yeah /etc/fstab

Is the fs NTFS? RH9 has a kernel without NTFS support.

There are a few things that need to be underlined.
Like Awatto mentioned, you should create a directory in /mnt and then mount to that directory.
Now, is your windowsXP using a FAT32 or NTFS file system.
If you don't know, open a terminal window and type:
If it is a FAT32 file system, type:
If it is a NTFS file system, you will need to download and install the NTFS support RPMs.
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

You can also mount it automatically by adding a line to /etc/fstab

Note:
NTFS support is Read-Only.
Do NOT write to NTFS from Linux.
It may corrupt your NTFS filesystem.

To mount a NTFS filesystem on Boot-up were all users have Read access, put an entry at the bottom of your /etc/fstab file on a new line - (just substitute in your Partition, Mount point and User ID Number ( uid ) in place of my example ones)



You can get your User ID Number by becoming Root user on the command line and typing:

id username – (substitute username with Aaron or Sofie or whatever your username is)