RedHat 8. newbie Q's

[Apodysophilia]

just installed redhat 8, and got some questions.

1: i have 2 other hard drives, hda1 and hda5, how do i make it mount and read/write to them both?? and do it auto on startup??

2: what is a good program to run some win apps on linux (ex: CS, photoshop ect...)??

that is all for now, but i know i will have more later.

[bdl]

In answer to your first question-
You might check and see if the other partitions (which I take are Windows / NTFS / FAT32 partitions) are already mounted. Some distros like Redhat or Mandrake, take the liberty of recognizing and mounting Windows partitions. If not, then its just a matter of recognizing what filesystem is on them, loading the necessary kernel module (or at least checking to see if it's loaded) then mounting the filesystem.

First off, what type of filesystem are we talking about?


In answer to the second -
Regarding running windows applications under linux, there is limited support. Wine / WineX etc can run certain applications, but something like photoshop I would think would be out of the question. Too big, too many dependancies for the emulators to handle. IMHO, if you want to run Win apps, dual-boot. OTHO, linux has alot of great software (most of which is probably already pre-installed under RH 8) to do most of the things you would want to do under Win.

[Apodysophilia]

thanks for the info,
1: NTFS is hda1, and i know you can only read from it. the other (hda5) is a FAT32.

2: i have a dual-boot win2k, i just dont want to switch every time i want to play CS, use photoshop or use Codewarrior.

[bdl]

Originally posted by Apodysophilia
thanks for the info,
1: NTFS is hda1, and i know you can only read from it. the other (hda5) is a FAT32.

Ok so let's first off check to verify that they're not already mounted. Just use the command 'mount' and look for those two partitions. If yes, then it will tell you the directory they're mounted on. If not, follow the following -

(as root)

[SHELL]
hostname# mkdir /mnt/ntfs
hostname# mkdir /mnt/fat32
[/SHELL]

Creates the mount points you intend to mount the partitions on. Obviously change them to something more suitable if you like.

[SHELL]
hostname# modprobe ntfs
hostname# modprobe vfat
[/SHELL]

Loads the kernel modules for these two filesystems. Usually just mounting the partitions will automatically load the modules, but we'll do this just in case.

[SHELL]
hostname# mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs
hostname# mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/hda5 /mnt/fat32
[/SHELL]

These are the basic commands to mount the filesystems and be able to access them as the root user. A 'regular' user on the system takes a couple more parameters, and you'd usually use them in your /etc/fstab (the file that is read to automatically mount partitions at boot).

Try those commands out, post your results and we'll take it from there.

[Belisarius]

There has been some success with getting Half Life to run under Linux. Just google around for it. As far as Photoshop goes, you're stuck with using it in Windows, unless you want to try another program. The Gimp is the most popular graphics program out there that I know of. And codeweaver . . . well I use NetBeans for that sort of work. I'm not sure what to suggest in the place of CodeWeaver.

[Apodysophilia]

thanks, and i got everything working, igot HL though a wine tut.

thanks again :rock: