I am running W2K and my Man 8.1 seems to work with it fine (However, I have not accomplished any writing to the NTFS from Linux... Just reading).
Hope this helps... =^} -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Stevenson Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 1:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing Windows Files On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:38:33 -0500 Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2002 23:04, you wrote: > > On Friday 11 January 2002 10:41 pm, Charles Muller wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I am a newcomer to Linux and to this list. I hope that you will not be > > > bothered by my extremely elementary questions. > > never > > > > > > > > I have installed Mandrake 8.1 in a dual boot with Windows 2000 on my Dell > > > desktop. The first thing I would like to do is get some of my previous > > > text documents transferred from the Windows sector into Linux. But with > > > the KDE file manager, I cannot see into the Windows area. Can someone > > > advise me on how to do this? > > Mandrake may have already set up your windows files as a directory under /mnt > If you go into Konqueror File Manager, labelled 'home directory' on your > desktop and look in the left pane you will see the root directory. Just click > on the plus sign in front of it (like in Windows) or double click on it and > all the 'sub' directories will appear. One of them will be the mnt directory. > Click on the plus sign in front of it and within it should appear the windows > directory .... labelled 'windows'. Once there, it should all be familiar > territory. > > mnt is where linux puts other file systems and Mandrake is very good at > setting it up during installation. > > hth, > Bill W. > > You may have a problem if you have Win2K using NTFS? Not done it myself, but I think NTFS and Linux have a problem. Someone advise please? Dave
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