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voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by dbl221:
I have noticed that Mandrake will automatically detect my vfat (fat32) data drive during install and mount it to /mnt/windows.

SuSe and RedHat were both unable to do this..........not that its a big chore to edit /etc/fstab but it is nice to have it done during install.
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I set up dual boot systems all the time with RedHat and have never had a problem setting up the vfat partition at install time. Of course I *never* select a predefined setup so it's possible that it will not do this for you on one of these.  I always do a "custom" or "upgrade" install because I don't care for the default partition layouts and package selection and Gnome default desktop.  A custom install only usually takes about a minute or two longer.

LunchboX:
I'm not sure, I'm still a little Linux newbie, but I did this using Webmin in a few steps =] If you have webmin it's somewhere in the options.. As I understand it, you can see and edit your windows partion from Linux, but can't see or edit Linux partions from Windows.

voidmain:
You are correct.  I load webmin on all my servers (and turn on SSL) for my partners although I very rarely use it.  I'm a command line wierdo..

Calum:
ha ha!

no windows can't read any file system other than FAT or FAT32, unless it's NT, in which case it can read NTFS as well.
Windows doesn't even know that you have linux installed, that's how dumb it is...
VoidMain printed a list of all the filesystems that Linux can routinely access in another post somewhere, something like 50 or 60 different ones...
of course some, are more stable than others, which is why lost's comments are quite apt as well.
Hey, not only that, but now you have linux installed and you have mounted your win partition... you can seek out all those index.dat files that the r1ddler talks about in his/her article re: hidden files, and use linux to delete them! it's much nicer to do it with linux than dos.
using dos again by comparison to linux is like putting your blindfold back on!

[ March 08, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[ March 08, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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