Hello Everyone, I have one Cellron 900 with 40 GB hdd. I install linux 7.1, but everytime if i want to use linux i have to boot it from linux bootable floppies and not be able to access my other partitions of my hard disk. How can I access my other partitions from Linux and is there any way to boot linux without Linux Bootable floppies. And plz. can anybody tell me that how to see my Windows NT based machines on linux. somebody had told me that use samba. but with samba how it is possible. plz. anybody help me.

Hi Moni, Do you know if your boot loader is lilo or grub? The latter I know very little about, for the former try : # /sbin/lilo -v As far as accessing other partitions, if they are windows fat32, then (assuming it's the first partition): # mount -v -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/Cdrive (note: /mnt/Cdrive is a "dummy" folder you must first define) check your /etc/fstab file for any definitions for other partitions that may be already set up. for Win NT (or 2000, etc.), you have NTFS. If this doesn't work: #mount -v -t ntfs /dev/hdax /mnt/NTFSwhatever -o ro (hdax is wherever the NT filesystem resides) ... then you may need a kernel recompile. Or at least install a module (which I can't help you with here). I highly recommend mounting ntfs filesystems as READ-ONLY until you're sure of what you are doing. As for SAMBA, yes, that's how you can talk to another machine running NT or whatever. Hope this helps.