Greg, Linux is a beast of a different color then DOS/WINDOWS. First, there are no drive letters here. You mount different partitions over a directory. Then you do so, the directory will then show the contents of the partition. The mount point (or directory) need not be empty, though if you mount a partition on top of a directory the original contents won't be visable. (Hope this doesn't confuse you too much.) Also, the drives appear a bit differently in linux. (Actually NT does make some use of the naming scheme.) The partitions are listed in a logical order. The master drive on the main IDE channel is hda, the slave is hdb. Then the next chanell on the IDE has hdc and hdd. As a note if you have two drives both as master they will be hda and hdc. The first partition on the drive is 1. The next is most likely 5. I will give you some instructions taking some information for granted. I am assuming that the second drive you refer to is the master on the second ISE chain and is setup with a single fat32 partition. (Yes, I know assumptions are dangerous.) Run the command "mount" and note what partitions are currently mounted and where. Then make a directory where you will mount the drive. (This is done with the "mkdir" command.) Now type the following line: mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /myseconddrive Note that the "/myseconddrive" is the directory you want this drive/partition to be mounted on. You probably need to do this as root. To cause this to automatically happen when you boot to Linux, you need to modify the /etc/fstab file. Also in case you are not familiar in Linux/Unix we use forward slashes for our directories. It is possible to deal with a space in the file names. To do so you must proceed the space with a backslash. Another (perhaps easier) way is to only list enough of the name to distinguish it then append the *. Here you can run the command: cd /home/bob* It will change to the first directory under home that starts with bob. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Cluelessness There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
