Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[doug333x]

I know there must be an easy answer to this. I have tried several Puppy distros and on all of them, i can't seem to get to the windows drives in file manager. I have mounted all the disks. I know they are hda1 and hda5 but when I manage to browse my way to them in file manager-it always says it can't open them. When I try to navigate to the media files I want in Gxine-I can't even get to the drives. The only way I've been able to play these files in Puppy is to use Pmount to unmount then mount the drives-that brings up a window with the drives and then I drag and drop a media file into Gxine. What am I doing wrong?

[disciple]

Puppy does not mount your disks automatically when you turn the computer on.
If you want to, you can put a script to do so in /root/Startup

1. Unmount your disks and try running the code to mount them in a terminal, just to make sure you can do it (N.B. you can paste text into and from rxvt by pressing the middle mouse button).
The code is something like

[doug333x]

Thanks-your advice works!