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I want to setup a linux partition on my windows 98 machine.  No biggy,
I understand all the particulars except one.  Is there anywhere I will
be able to see that "other windows" partition.  It would be ideal to
be able to pull files from the windows partition

I suspect that answer is "no stupid" but I wanted to try anyways.

Thanks

Scott

First, if no mount point has been created, say "/mnt/win98", then use

mkdir -m 0777 -p /mnt/win98

--- Way #1 (One-time mounting) ---
Mount your Windows 98 filesystem with:

mount -t vfat -o rw,umask=0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98

This can only be done as root user.
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--- Way #2 (Multi-time manual mounting) ---
Edit your "/etc/fstab" file to have this line:

/dev/hda1  /mnt/win98  vfat  rw,umask=0,user,noauto  0  0

Save your changes.  Now, as any user, you can do this:

mount /mnt/win98

or

mount /dev/hda1
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--- Way #3 (Mult-time automatic mounting on boot up) ---
Edit your "/etc/fstab" file to have this line:

/dev/hda1  /mnt/win98  vfat  rw,umask=0,auto  0  0

Save your changes.  As root user, you can do this:

mount /mnt/win98

or

mount /dev/hda1

This is only necessary the first time if you want to use it right way.
But after your next reboot, the filesystem will be mounted to
"/mnt/win98" automatically.
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Chris

Quote:>Ok, dumb question number one for your amu*t.  

>I want to setup a linux partition on my windows 98 machine.  No biggy,
>I understand all the particulars except one.  Is there anywhere I will
>be able to see that "other windows" partition.  It would be ideal to
>be able to pull files from the windows partition

>I suspect that answer is "no stupid" but I wanted to try anyways.

>Thanks

>Scott

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Scott