Re: where are the partitions?

ppblue_at_despammed.com
Date: 08/08/03 

Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:48:44 GMT

>*You do not want to use linuxconf*. I thought its use was ended by Red
>Hat sometime on or before they issued R.H.L. 7.3. It was a can of worms
>that caused nothing but trouble. I do not think other distros used
>linuxconf, but having never used other distros, I am not an expert at that.
>
>RedHat 8 threw linuxconf away, which was appropriate. Look at the varous
>redhat-config-* tools now available instead.
>
>You can also use "fdisk" to to examine the state of your disk. You may
>have blown away the Windows partitions....
>

Thanks for answering.
Well, I need to access files on the Windows partitions and linuxconf
was a convenient way to set them up. I would expect to use MC or
something similar for that.
If I cannot access the files in the Windows partitions anymore I can
as well go back to Windows and forget about Linux. Currently, my
Linux8 setup is no better (Windows accesses only Windows files; is RH
going the same way as MS excluding other file systems?)

Yes, the partitions can be displayed with the command line (fdisk),
but this is not of much help. I need more versatility. I need to
handle four languages including Chinese and Japanese and that is just
not possible on RH. Therefore, I need to transfer files from and to
Win partitions because of this, in a way that I can read the content
in an effiecient manner.

Peter

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