Dominic McDonald-Aveyard a écrit:
> 
>...
>         Now another question, I installed red hat from hard disk, fine, no problem. 
>Now
> using the X package manager, I don't know the path name for my second windows HD
> where all the red hat stuff lives. When I used FIPS to repartition the drive it
> called it /tmp/hdb1/ I tried using that path with the package manager but it
> told me no packages lived there.
>         So what is the proper path, do I have to mount my second windows hard disk in
> linux first?

The answer is YES ! If you disk isn't mounted, its contents aren't
visible to Linux.

so, create a mountpoint, e.g. doing "mkdir /mnt/windows" ,
then mount your drive (I presume it's windows95 file system) :
"mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows" 

then you have all your files visible.

CU !
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