Linux A number of questions (RH8 based)

Ok, ive finaly come to the conclusion that if im to use linux seriously im going to have to dump windows completely which does bring one or two problems (id be really greatfull if some of them could be sorted) up for me so ill start with question one:

before i begin a bit of information which may be usefull. Im useing Windows XP on my other partition.

1). I have an Archos 20gig mp3 player which has backed up windows files on it around 3 gigs worth (so it ain just the odd office file i can dumb onto disk). im useing USB2 connectivity in windows but does Linux support USB2? Also How do i access the drive once ive connected it to the computer so i can get the files back off it? would the drive need to be connected before i start linux, and would it need to be attached to the comptuer when im going through the RH8 installation.

2). I understand that java is not present on RH8. How would i go about installing it? I know i can get it from the sun microsystems website but which one would i need.

3). Scanner- i have a HP 5400C Scanner, how would i go about accessing this and useing it like in windows. whenin linux i have not come across any information about scanners or ones connected to my comptuer. Do i need to set it up seperately like a printer? It uses USB

4). i have a USB smart media card reader. is it possible for me to access this?

That it for now, i have one or two other small things but hopefully ill find out how to do them later on. Id be really really greatfull for any help given here. Those who have posted to my threads about linux before can see i still haven't learned very much about it , sorry about that .

 

erm ne one got ne ideas?

 

The best I could say would be wack it in, and just see. Crack open the kernel and see what kind of support for that stuff it has. Also, Linux supports USB2, it's the same as USB1, just faster.

Otherwise, I don't have any experience with any of that stuff, I've never tried to get my scanenr working, well, mainly, cuz I never use it.

Google up on that stuff, check out the common Linux pages, check sourceforge.

 

Thanks for the post Kargin. Ive managed to access my external hard drive but cant access its files "yet" , as for the scanner ive found some tutorials. Java can wait tho

 

What kind of file system is used on that thing ? Make sure your kernel build has support for it. ALthough if you cna mount the partition, you should have access to it. So you can see the files, but not use them ? Are you root ? If not, make sure you su when accessing it, might ned more privilages. Otherwise, how did you access the files before ? Was there a special program ? You might have to see about a Linux version/crack or even try Wine or WineX.

 

Ok i asked on the google message board things aswell yesturday and this is what i got back

All you have to do:

0) login as root or become root (type "su -" and root password)

1) Type "mkdir /mnt/usb2" to create a mount point

2) Type "fdisk -l" to see which device your USB2 HD uses

3) Type "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb2" for example to mount the device
(It could be /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1....)

4) Type "cd /mnt/usb2" to access that device

Now i can gain acces to the drive by CDing to it, and i can gain access to folders. Say ive got a folder called music on it i can cd to the music folder, but i dont know how to retrive the files from that folder and put them on my desk top.

The drive uses a FAT32 file system

My google thread am i allowed to post that?

 

Okay so cd to your usb dir, then all you have to do (I'm guessing you don't have access to a GUI ?) is cp /mnt/USB2/*whatever* /$HOME/Desktop

Or where ever you want it. If you do have a GUI, then just grab your browser (Konquerer since your using Reddhat) and go to /mnt/USB2 and then select what you want, right click > Copy, then move to where you want it, and right click > paste.

 

Great ive got access to the drive in a GUI way just like in windows but i cant see the files within them folders whats gone wrong ?

 

Uh.


Err.


Umm.


Grenade ?


Grab a console, and cd /mnt/USB2 then ls does it list the files ?

If so, have fun with copying in the console, otherwise. Uhh. Beat it witha tuna ?

 

I restarted the machine with the drive still turned on and wahay it worked It keeps stalling when transfereing the files tho and rite now its been stalled for about 2 mins so i think its crashed. Thanks for your help Kargin much appreciated

 

On some of my CDs (actually most of them ) they burned wrong, and when I try to copy he data on them over to teh HDD, it stalls, then restarts, and sometimes it just stalls. Mayhap the data has become corrupted ?

I managed to get soem of teh data off some of them by setting up an FTP, makig myself an account that has access to teh CD, tehn downloading the files off the CD, through loopback, through the FTP client, and ten into teh downlaod folder. Some of them didn't work though. Might be an option if you become as desparate as me.