Playign MP3s from another Partition

i still cant even get sound outta my knoppix box, consider yourself lucky!!

Stephen wrote: [quote]what does 'cat /proc/mounts' give ?[quote]It says "rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root.old /initrd ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0"
I used Partitionmagic to formate the HD. I am using Windoze 98se OS

Just made a a discovery. I moved all my MP3s to hda1 and opened the partition and then th folder"My Music". Gues what the files played. Now all I have to do is point to them and see if I can load all of the ffiles :D I know I can't mkdir My Music so will rename folder and and make a mountpoint to hda1. "mount /dev/hda1 /music. What do you think :?:

[quote="Cronos55"]Stephen wrote: [quote]what does 'cat /proc/mounts' give ?

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It says "rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root.old /initrd ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0"
I used Partitionmagic to formate the HD. I am using Windoze 98se OS

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I don't think you have the partition where your MP3 is stored mounted based on this. you only have /dev/hda2 mounted as 'root' where linux is stored. That is why you can see the content, unlike window, you have to mount the drive/partition before you can see it under linux(including floppy). This is quite confusing for users window.

You guys may be attacking this from the wrong direction. If fdisk can't see the disk then there's no point trying to mount anything on it.

However: Did you actually enter ' fdisk -l /dev/hdb ' or something different?

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Originally Posted by Cronos55

Thanks for your tips on what I can try. I will get to what you said to direct my mountpoint, as for the fdisk post:

Disk /dev/hdb5: 1087 MB, 1087898112 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 526 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb5p1 ? 1 1 0 0 Empty
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(1065220, 4, 4)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

This is what it shows. Any thoughts? :idea:

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:D Hey everyone, after farther investigatiton I realized we wer attacking the problem wrong. I stopped and looked at it as a windoze problem and was able to fix it/ I said much props to all who kicked the cobwebs out of my head to think this out. I moved all of the MP3s in hdb5 to hda1 in windoze then lanched konppix and was able to open hba1 and see all the files in a folder I moved them to. It was a matter of making a directory music the just copy all files to /home/music directory and ahla I had music in my xxms. thank guys