Get access to my window drives

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: Get access to my window drives
started by: Lockpicking

Posted by Lockpicking on Jan. 12 2006,16:02

Hello,
I hope anyone of you can help me, because im not that good in using linux.

How can I access my windows hard drives from the embedded DSL.

And another question:
The right mouse key is only working in full screen mode. Is this always so or is there something wrong on my PC?

Thanks in advance!

Regards
Thomas

Posted by pr0f3550r on Jan. 12 2006,19:14

< http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToFloppyCdrom-en.html >

Hard disk access is read-only (see my previous posts)
Floppy and cd (rw) should be rw, I haven't tried.
You can mount the dsl hard drive but boot from cd, i.e. Knoppix cd, I have done it and it works ok.

If you try to boot from local hard drive, you'll break the system (according to the above mentioned source).

Posted by Lockpicking on Jan. 13 2006,07:20

Hi,
you misunderstood. I do not want to boot from a hard drive. I only want to have access to my hard drives out from DSL when I ran my embedded DSL via the batch file. But I don't know how to get access to the drives because I'n not experienced in linux.

Regards
Thomas

Posted by Dr.Death on Jan. 13 2006,22:03

Lockpicking...I have the same question? It appers that when you run QEMU within WindowsXP only hda and hdb (these are virtual hdd created by dsl) appear under the "Mounting Tool"...? There is no hda1 option in the mounting tool. This leaves the question of how does one access their HDD on the host?

Posted by roberts on Jan. 13 2006,23:16

Your question is primarliy a Qemu question.
Search their user fourms or

Try the search button and look for samba in this Embedded area of the forum, use from the beginning option. There was a writeup on it awhile back.

Posted by Dr.Death on Jan. 13 2006,23:53

I have found a way of accessing files & Drives on the Host System, but it's arcane! I would much rather have a method for "Mounting" the drives, so that I could use more of the "Tools" embedded in dsl...for example the tool for creating a dsl bootable USB pen drive.
Anyway for those who just need file access, use the following method:
1) Connect your computer to a network. Local LAN, whole Internet, doesn't matter.
2) In Windows, create a network share directory, or use the built-in one called "SharedDocs". You need to enable read/write authority for your share.
3) In Windows, open up a command prompt (Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt). For Win2k/WinXP, type "ipconfig" and write down your IP Address.
4) Go into DSL embedded. Open up smbclient window...
Type in MSHome, or Workgroup, (or whatever your workgroup's name for "Domain:"
Type in your IP Address for the "Machine:".
Type in the EXACT Sharename for "Share:"
Type in a username/password combination.
6) When you get to the smbclient command prompt, type "get filename" to retrieve a file from the Windows share directory, or type "put filename" to send a file over to the Windows share directory.
7) When you are done type exit.