Linux newbie questions

[EndobioticChaos]

Finally starting to really get into Linux and I've got a few newbie questions:
1.) How do I get at files on a FAT32 partition other than the Linux partition?
2.) How do I decompress a .tar.gz file?

Perhaps more to come later...

[ChoaticWhisper]

Try looking in the /mnt/win_c - Thats your windows C:\
and to decompress the file you would use tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
Just post ant more questions

[EndobioticChaos]

So just type tar -zxvf *filename*.tar.gz in the command line huh?

[vass0922]

Try looking in the /mnt/win_c - Thats your windows C:\

^--- as noted above! If you're using mandrake or maybe some other new distro it should make it automatically and probably put in as EC noted.

otherwise you'll have to mount it manually
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c -vfat 0 0 1 is it??? something like that, you can do a "man mount" for more info
been awhile!


-- edit --

yep thats it for the tarball, that completely decompresses it from the .gz and .tar I do believe.

[pbharris]

hello,
like someone said a quick tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz will decompress and unarchive a .tar.gz file,

for the fat32 partion you can use linuxconf as user root to mount it, go to file system -> access local drive. a list of partions should pop up, if one of these is not the fat partition then click the add button at the bottom, and enter the info about the vfat partion. note that in linux the first partion is /dev/hda1 (for an IDE drive) - this would be the first partion on the master IDE drive conected to the primary IDE controller. If it is win9x then this is most likely where your fat partition is. another way to mount this is:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win_drive - assuming the mount point (which is an empty directory) is named /win_drive. there are ways to automate this of course.