I installed Vector Linux 4.3 in a system with multi Operating Systems. I have some important documents in the Fat32 Windows Partitions. How can I access my Fat32 and NTFS Partitions in Vector Linux 4.3?

I have a PCTel Internal Modem but I cannot make it work. Do you have any suggestions for it? ..........................

Hi!

Welcome to LQ.org. Use the mount command, for example: Let's say you FAT32 partition is the first partition of your hd, then open a terminal and type:


su
mkdir /mnt/win_c
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c


That should work. If you want to have that partition mounted automatically during boot, then open up and add this line to your /etc/fstab:

That line will give full read and write permissions to all users. To mount a NTFS will be quite similar, however, you won't be able to write to a NTFS partition without tweaking the kernel. It's not recommended to do that to a NTFS and lost of data have been reported. FAT32 is quite safe, however.

And I have no previous experience with Linux and modems, sorry. But you may want to take a look at those pages:

http://linmodems.org/
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Winmodems-...nux-HOWTO.html

Good luck!

You can access your fat32 and ntfs partitions by mounting them (ntfs in read only).

Step 1: Find the name of the partition, for example the partition named "c" in windows could be "/dev/hda1" in windows, you can find good info about your partitions with a partition manager, for example cfdisk or better qparted but maybe you don´t have the second installed. Surely there are other better ways for doing this, but it works, suggestions please.

Step 2: Select a directory where to mount it, any (empty?) will work, for example create a directory named "/mnt/ntfs1".

Step 3: "mount /dev/hda /mnt/ntfs1"

This is only a vague description, you should read the man pages about mount:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html

And about fstab if you want this to be done automatically by your file manager.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/fstab.5.html

For PCTEL modems look at this site:

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pcte...x/welcome.html

I am only giving you a point where to start, read the docs and be patient. Luck.

Thanks, I now can access all my partitions in Linux but I'm still I've been unable to install my modem

Chances are that if it's an onboard chip, it's a winmodem. A hardware modem would require it's own chips (therefore more space), and that would defeat the purpose of onboard components. You'll have to see if you can find a binary driver package for it. Or if you can't, check out Linuxant and their softmodem driver loader.

Now, I changed to Fedora Core 2. But there too the problem remains the same. I can't get the drivers for my modem and more I can't play DVD Video...........................

Drivers for your PCTel modem are available here:

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pcte...9-rht-4.tar.gz

The version that's compatible with 2.6 kernels was just released.