i installed linux it is working fine. the problem is i could mount the windows drives. i tried this command 'mount -t vfat /dev /hda1' it says mount point does not exist. pls tell me how to do this. i have win xp also. thanku

You have to create a dir. to mount your parition. Do something like this: mkdir /mnt/windows mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows You can enter the info in your fstab so it gets automatically mounted at boot. You can use "nomount" if you don't want to mount automatically, then you can just do: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 to mount it in /mnt/windows. Make sure /dev/hda1 _is_ actually your windows partition.

thanku very much audiophile. iam able to mount the windows partitions. ok now tell me what is 'hda' and 'hdb' . when i gave hda1 it said no mount point but when i gave hdb1,2... it mounted. my linux version is redhat 9 do i have any player to play .dat files(movies)? tell me how to play movies in linux.