Re: [newbie] Music from the window

2002-04-30 Thread Derek Jennings
> > Getting to the files is more tricky. You'll have to mouunt the partition > first, and/or edit your /etc/fstab file so that it automounts it on > startup. First, where is this partition? It may just be easy to > create a directory called /mp3 (as root) and mount the disk/partition > into /mpt.

Re: [newbie] Music from the window

2002-04-29 Thread dfox
> I found this player that looks like Winamp, buried deep in the "startmenu" > somewhere. So far, so good. Well, KDE has noatun, and that works fairly well as an mp3 player. xmms is also good. >From konqueror you can right click on the mp3 file and choose one or the other from the "Open With"

Re: [newbie] Music from the window

2002-04-29 Thread Brian Koppe
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 FA

Re: [newbie] Music from the window

2002-04-29 Thread FemmeFatale
Christian Wohlfahrt wrote: > > Hi all, > > first post here, sorry to sound like a Linux dummy, but I am (not only a > Mandrake newbie ;-)' No such thing as a dummy here... After all you asked intelligent questions. That proves your theory wrong. > > So, I have managed to get 8.2 installed (af

[newbie] Music from the window

2002-04-29 Thread Christian Wohlfahrt
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 s