Playign MP3s from another Partition

**Travdecool** · 08-23-2003, 03:47 AM

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

**Cronos55** · 08-23-2003, 04:43 AM

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

**Cronos55** · 08-23-2003, 05:08 AM

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

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

**garyng** · 08-23-2003, 05:25 AM

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

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

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.

**Dave_Bechtel** · 08-23-2003, 06:33 AM

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?

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?

**Cronos55** · 08-23-2003, 02:31 PM

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