Hello, I have been teaching some windows people a bit about the linux desktop and installing redhat 9 linux. However, they would like to see (and copy) files from the windows partitions under linux. I gather these are fat32 partitions.
To do this requires creating a mount point, editing the /etc/fstab file and then accessing the partition from the desktop. The first part will require root access and use of mkdir if from the command line; the seconda part could be done as root using gvim (since that seems a whole lot easier than trying to teach them command-line 'vi'!); the third part is the easiest since right-clicking on the background (under KDE) and creating a new disk icon will allow them to easily see what is on the partition. All of this takes some explaining to them! I have very deliberately kept away from the command-line itself since the idea was for them to install linux for themselves at home and keep it all generally easy - i.e. point and click. It would be far easier, I would have though, if there was some sort of GUI fstab editor in which the user could specify the partitions they want to add (via the desktop) and which would create the mount point as well. The user can specify options and the file system type. I came across an old copy of 'kfstab' but this failed to work (under redhat linux 9 with kde 3.1). Does anyone know of any sort of GUI fstab editor? Thanks, John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
