New Linux User

hi guys.

well i suffessfully installed red hat and made it duel boot. i have two HD's in my pc, my 80 gig is windows and my 20 gig is linux red hat.

i know they are different o/s's but when i try to view the D drive in windows D: (linux) it isnt able to read it. same thing goes with linux when i try to view the hdc1 which would be my C: drive i cant view it.
is there a way both HD's can see each other?

also whats the difference between mandrake and red hat? which one is better?


linux is different then what im use to using.

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Originally posted by [NeoZeeD]
also whats the difference between mandrake and red hat? which one is better?

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In the past Mandrake has been more for home/personal/desktop use and Red Hat was more coporate/server oriented. That doesn't mean Red Hat couldn't be used for home/personal and vice versa. I think that Red Hat is starting to make its distro more for the desktop. It's been a while since I've looked into Linux, so I might be wrong.

Had the same problem myself NeoZeeD I was going to import my bookmarks,simple I thought put it on floppy then.... UH OH???? C`ant read the FAT format in Linux. Ended up posting my bookmarks to myself and collecting it on the Red Hat system mailer.
I`m pretty sure theres a Windows emulator of some sort for Linux though,I have to look when I get chance as I`m still trying to figure out this new file compression thing [tar.gz?]to install a program.I did skip through a post somewhere saying uncompress it one way [gz?] then the other [tar?] I shall have to reread it again.

Thanks for the tips Daemon I`ll try it next chance I get,seems rather complicated just to alter a workgroup name though.

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Originally posted by [NeoZeeD]
hi guys.

well i suffessfully installed red hat and made it duel boot. i have two HD's in my pc, my 80 gig is windows and my 20 gig is linux red hat.

i know they are different o/s's but when i try to view the D drive in windows D: (linux) it isnt able to read it. same thing goes with linux when i try to view the hdc1 which would be my C: drive i cant view it.
is there a way both HD's can see each other?

also whats the difference between mandrake and red hat? which one is better?


linux is different then what im use to using.

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ok windows cannot read a non fat or ntfs partition, linux formats the partition in ext2 or ext3 unless you specify other.

you will not be bale to read the linux partition from windows unless you get the linux explorer for windows, now with linux, you can mount the windows drive and read the windows partition from linux

at the command prompt:

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt

or any directory you want like /c (if you created a directory)

its probily better to do this...

as root

type this

mkdir /c

mount /dev/hdb1 /c

or if the windows system is fat or fat32

mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /c

or ntfs partitions

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /c

the diffrence in mandrake and red hat....

there are over 1000 distros of linux, there all the same when it comes down to the kernal. the only diffence is the software included and other config software the distro has created.

mandrake is a copy of redhat 6.0

I like redhat better, im more of a gentoo and slackware linux man myself, though these are for more advanced users.

you can always goto www.redhat.com for help and howtos

also www.linuxdoc.org is another good place.

use google to search for how tos


like

linux mount windows partition howto

I got this from google
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld...01-legacy.html

kool thanks :D

i have to go to gay class now, but when i get back im going to try that.

peace out

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Originally posted by Archer
Had the same problem myself NeoZeeD I was going to import my bookmarks,simple I thought put it on floppy then.... UH OH???? C`ant read the FAT format in Linux. Ended up posting my bookmarks to myself and collecting it on the Red Hat system mailer.
I`m pretty sure theres a Windows emulator of some sort for Linux though,I have to look when I get chance as I`m still trying to figure out this new file compression thing [tar.gz?]to install a program.I did skip through a post somewhere saying uncompress it one way [gz?] then the other [tar?] I shall have to reread it again.

Thanks for the tips Daemon I`ll try it next chance I get,seems rather complicated just to alter a workgroup name though.

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with samba yes, but when you learn and get it setup it works great and then you know how to do it.


http://www.samba.org go here for howtos and help on samba

there is a windows emulator but it cost money, or you can use the free one called wine, this will allow you to install windows apps on linux, like the office suite.

crash course in compressed files :)

for tgz files

tar xvfpz file.tgz

for tar files

tar xvfpz file.tar

or use

tar xvf file.tar or file.tgz :)

for red hat users, use RPM files

rpm -Uhv file.rpm (this installes the file for you :))

dont get bz2 files only get rpm or tar or tgz files, you can even unzip things like this

unzip file.zip

or

unzip -d file.zip


for help you can always do this

man appname here (use the man files for help)

or for another way for help

appname --help

like tar --help

this will display the flags you can use with the application