Christian, I'm a fairly new newbie as well, but I *can* tell you that NTFS + Linux are not good together. I don't remember which, but Linux cannot read or write to it, and the one of those which it CAN do it cannot do well. My suggestion, if you can, is to reformat/reinstall Windows using FAT32. Obviously though, this will require you to back up data, which maybe someone else on this board can give you better advice. The nice thing about FAT32 is that Linux is seamless with it. Whenever I reinstall Linux or Windows, I just move all my data back and forth between each partition - it's quite convenient in that way, and obviously many others.
XMMS is the player you referred to that looks like Winamp - it's a great player. May I also suggest keeping an eye out for Winamp 3 for Linux? It's only an Alpha Preview right now, but it looks like it may be pretty solid in the future. Konqueror is, in fact, sort of like Explorer in Windows. Unlike Windows though, there are many other file managers that you may like to see as well. I prefer Konqueror myself, but be sure to at least look at Nautilus and a few of the others. As far as mounting drives, I'm pretty much a newbie myself as I said, and I've never had to do it with Mandrake 8.2. The drives should mount in startup I believe. If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone here will correct me. Lastly, don't feel bad asking these questions :-) We were all at your point at some time (myself not too long ago). Hope I helped! ;-) Brian Christian Wohlfahrt wrote: > Hi all, > > first post here, sorry to sound like a Linux dummy, but I am (not only > a Mandrake newbie ;-) > > So, I have managed to get 8.2 installed (after trying with RedHat, > which seemed to dislike my partitioning...). > I now have to work my way through all these Howto's, and I'd like to > listen to some music while doing that. > I found this player that looks like Winamp, buried deep in the > "startmenu" somewhere. So far, so good. > Now I have plenty of MP3's, but they are on a W2K NTFS partition, > which I couldn't find with Konqueror (seems to me that this is the > explorer counterpart, right?). > If I understood correctly, I have to do something like mounting a > drive or so, but I have no idea how to do that. > > My question: Is there another program (or package) that I need to do > this? > And if it's not worth an answer, can I find it in the HowTo's ? > > Thanks a lot > Christian > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > -- Brian says: Use Mozilla for your browsing, e-mail, and IRC needs! v 0.9.9 available for free at http://www.mozilla.org
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