wondering if anyone can help me install a modem driver that I downloaded under windows for linux, it is in RPM, but do i have to save it to a floppy disk? Or can linux read it from where I saved it on the hd?
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wondering if anyone can help me install a modem driver that I downloaded under windows for linux, it is in RPM, but do i have to save it to a floppy disk? Or can linux read it from where I saved it on the hd?
Im guessing Your Running A dual partition ? If so Linux can read windows files stored in the /mnt/windows directory. cd to /mnt/windows and copy it to /usr/bin or something.
And as root do a rpm -ivh file.rpm and you should be all set.
thanks alot, going to try it now, yeah it's a dual partion
if you linux distro doesnt have the Windows folder already added you can do it yourself:
-> Create a new folder in /mnt called 'Windows' or something
-> Fire up the console, and get superuser (yeah the 'su' thing ;) )
-> Navigate to /mnt
-> Type 'mount -t msdos /hda1 /mnt/Windows'
you should be able to get to the Window directory
the breakdown of it is:
-> Mount - Self explainitry
-> -t - the filesystem type
-> msdos - the filesystem, i think WinXP would be typed in as 'ntfs'
-> hda - the harddrive, if you had a second ide harddrive, it would be hdb, scsi is a different value
-> /mnt/xxx - the target folder in linux
hopefully that will help your troubles
rember for NTFS makesure your kernel has NTFS support... heh it does save some frustration if you
happen to jsut have a brain fart (yes i have tried to mount an NTFS partion w/o the appropriate module for an hour before i realised i didnt have the module installed and running)
Hey thanks for the reply, I just noticed it, How can i tell if my kernel can reconize it or not, I'm running kernel version 2.4.21-0.13mdk, do you know if it supports ntfs, and I am running ntfs on the windows partition