The directions were fantastic! Thanks much, will try this when I get home. I like Fedora, because it has many accessibility features for blind folk like me. Does KDE have a feature like Orca in Gnome? On 3/11/14, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 03/11/14 10:32, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: >> How did you make the mount point? And where do I find other >> partitions, and does this work with Rhythmbox? >> > > Please don't top post. > > To make the mount point, it's just like making any other directory > (mkdir /media/music in my case). Finding the other partition isn't a > big deal. To find the correct Windows partition (as root) use fdisk -l > (that's a lowercase L) which will print out all partitions you have on > that system. This is what my netbook looks like: > > caesar markh # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disklabel type: dos > Disk identifier: 0x0ac10daa > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 2048 25167871 12582912 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE > /dev/sda2 * 25167872 25372671 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > /dev/sda3 25372672 399290403 186958866 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > /dev/sda4 399292416 488396799 44552192 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 399296512 400320511 512000 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 400322560 484290559 41984000 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 484292608 488396799 2052096 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > Look for the NTFS partitions, in mine I have one hidden partition > (recovery partition), a boot partition (the one with the * in the BOOT > column) and then the primary Windows partition at /dev/sda3. (Again, > yours might be different.) > > So, as root I 'mount /dev/sda3 /media/music' and open up Amarok. Now, > when I first set this up, I had to point Amarok to the right file > location since I mounted the Windows partition directly (which I use > for things other than music), but I don't see any reason why you just > couldn't symlink the Music directory in the Windows partition to the > Music directory in your home folder. (Then again, I don't know, it's > not something I've ever done.) > > I did just confirm that RhythmBox works with my mounted partition, but > YMMV. > > And, forgive the Fisher-Price version of the instructions. I'm not > certain of your level of Linux experience, so I was as detailed as I > could be. No insult intended. > > > - -- > Mark Haney > Network/Systems Administrator > Practichem > W: (919) 714-8428 > Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.4-200.fc20.x86_64 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTHyS8AAoJEM/YzwEAv6e78uAH/i+PT1k6wzMjP9HB0BeU4sae > UggNGV1Ri0TlLtFwOwTnOmrnDl/PGI85EqRIczfw+iLY5gCIPw0NgaXl/K72Tmgc > JeU6/y+8c+T/251ve5XHNVT8DL3eByPvTwf+Xw7zKDMY4zx1zaCTWjt/ezfw/4M5 > 26c7PSGOHyoRdLA5Vt7WauIgp+pS9jzRv8gDLEfFm3ibyLLqeFPbVaAJiZdCGtqJ > DttAtW6wik8YwUGTZP+Hd+p+itzDDjqpcMr5phfw3FsSg7acopuUeEY0uO7ZrV7k > xiI3o6FGXrVONIAk45rCSeTOtulA8j1cYCO2wLuK9UhYwVo7tyrpuf+DHGVCSLs= > =tdcm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
