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I have a dual boot PC with Windows 98 in one and Red Hat 7.2
on another partition. Both systems are working fine, I can boot both
systems independently. Any idea how to make the windows file system
Linux-aware or vice-versa?

Thanks,

Modify the fstab-file located in /etc.

The procedure is basically thus. Make a directory somewhere in your Linux
filesystem - for excample in /mnt and call it something like dos or fat or
vfat or windows....  Then use a tool to modify fstab - a tool like "vi" or
"vim"! You will have to figure out what your dos-parition(s) is(are) called
and located. On my computer "dos" is located on hda1 and hda5. Fat32 is
called vfat on Linux systems

Fstab on my computer:
/dev/hda8 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 vfat rw,auto,umask=000 1 1
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat defaults 1 1
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

To be able to both read and write to hda5 (used as storage for mp3s, docs
etc) I have in the 4th column put "rw, auto and umask=000". If you are the
only user on the computer this is ok, but if your computer are used by
other users as well I suggest you use other values in this column. Please
refer to "man mount" to find more info. If you only want to be able to read
the dos system use "defaults"

The next time you reboot you will be able to read (and write) your dos
system. To manually mount until you reboot - type

mount -t vfat  /dev/hdax  /mnt/hdax

in a terminal-window.

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