Re: Windows XP files under Knoppix, where?

From: Dan Espen (daneNO_at_SPAM.mk.telcordia.com)
Date: 11/05/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:51:28 -0500

Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> writes:

> Dances With Crows wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:02:29 GMT, Ron Hardin staggered into the Black
>> Sun and said:
>> > I booted in a Knoppix DVD on my Windows XP laptop (great! a shell I
>> > can understand) but am unable to figure out how to get to the windows
>> > XP files, which is ultimately the whole point.
>> >
>> > $ mount what, or $ cd what? to get to the windows XP file tree
>>
>> Laptops typically have one IDE hard disk. 'Doze is pretty insistent
>> about being on the first partition on the first disk, so your 'Doze
>> files are almost certainly on /dev/hda1 . Knoppix may automount some
>> things; check which filesystems are mounted with "mount". If hda1 isn't
>> mounted, you'd do:
>>
>> mkdir /mnt/somewhere
>> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/somewhere
>>
>> ...and go to town. Remember that Linux's NTFS support is only 100% for
>> reading, so if you're using NTFS on your disk, you can't write to that
>> disk unless you use something like Captive NTFS. And that still might
>> not work 100% of the time. HTH,
>
> Hmm. okay.
>
> Should I get partition magic 8.0 and convert XP to FAT32? it seems to claim to do
> that.
>
> I'd really like to cd to the winXP partition and use linux there (use linux means
> /bin/sh, /bin/ed, make, lex, cc, CC, and that's about it ; in short classical k&r
> unix)

I'm not sure why you'd want to use Linux tools inside the XP partition,
if you have some source code there, you can build it for Linux inside the
Linux partition by reading from XP and writing in Linux.

If you just want to use Unix type tools inside XP, you should look at
the Cygwin port of Linux tools to windows.

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