Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 07 November 2002 05:39 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my current system. I have many documents there I would like to transfer to my Linux, Documents directory. Is there any way I can conveniently do this? LTR Langsley, you actually do not need to transfer anything. You can make this D-drive of yours accessible to linux in read-write-mode by editing (as root) your /etc/fstab. In that file, there's a stanza for your hda5. Edit it to contain the option umask=0 like this : iso8859-15,codepage=850,rw,nosuid,umask=0,nodev 0 0... Save the file and you can use this D-drive from within linux. Cool,... eh ? I'm surprised the Windows drive isn't mounted automatically under /mnt/windows - this is the default in a Mandrake installation. If it is mounted and you were just asking how you can get at the Windows files more conveniently, the easiest way is to put a symbolic link to wherever you have your documents in Linux. After cd-ing to this directory (e.g. cd /home/langsley/Documents) ln -s /mnt/windows/My\ Documents ./ Make sure you have write-permission to Windows files (see previous posts on this issue). Sir Robin -- You almost never hear that word computer anymore, do you? They're part of everything now. They used to be boxes with keyboards, you know. - Tad Williams Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents
Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my current system. I have many documents there I would like to transfer to my Linux, Documents directory. Is there any way I can conveniently do this? LTR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents
Actually if it's a FAT partition you can even use your documents on the partition. I remember when I still had MS Windows Linux Mandrake always mounted the windows partition automatically at /mnt/windows. Frank. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents
i believe the easiest way will be (as root) to cp all the files from the windows mount to the desired directory, then chown user.group files in the new location. you may have to also modify the file permissions since they may all be r only, and only for the user. --- Original Message --- From: Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK-LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my current system. I have many documents there I would like to transfer to my Linux, Documents directory. Is there any way I can conveniently do this? LTR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:39, Langsley T Russell wrote: Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my current system. I have many documents there I would like to transfer to my Linux, Documents directory. Is there any way I can conveniently do this? LTR I always automount my VFAT/FAT partitions or create a script to do so - so that I can store/use stuff on those partitions. You need to know the partitions, though, in order to do that...my script goes like this: mount /dev/hda1 /c-drive mount /dev/hdb1 /d-drive ...although your partitions may vary. By doing that, you're saving yourself from having to copy stuff all over the place and create more garbage than most of us already have... -- Fri Nov 8 09:35:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | You can't go home again, unless you set $HOME. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents
On Thursday 07 November 2002 05:39 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my current system. I have many documents there I would like to transfer to my Linux, Documents directory. Is there any way I can conveniently do this? LTR Langsley, you actually do not need to transfer anything. You can make this D-drive of yours accessible to linux in read-write-mode by editing (as root) your /etc/fstab. In that file, there's a stanza for your hda5. Edit it to contain the option umask=0 like this : iso8859-15,codepage=850,rw,nosuid,umask=0,nodev 0 0... Save the file and you can use this D-drive from within linux. Cool,... eh ? HTH Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
