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mr6re9:
create a folder in /mnt i.e /mnt/gates
edit /etc/fstab by adding the line:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/gates vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=500,gid=500,umask=022 1 1
where hda1 is my win partition, yours may be different.
reboot

Of course you may wish to change the options like noexec,ro or defaults for ease. I use wine, so it mounts vfat a little more precariuosly. Never messes up linux but did rename some win files once.

farmer6re9

mr6re9:
I almost forgot.....Be VERY, VERY Careful about line wrap in this file. It is not easy to recover from an error since this controls mounting of all filesystems. One time using pico, my / line got wrapped and I could not restore or even recover.

Calum:
it seems what i was saying above is correct.
here is my fstab file:

LABEL=/    /         ext2    defaults       1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0   /mnt/floppy auto   noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/hda5  /mnt/win    vfat    nosuid,user,rw 0 0
none       /proc       proc    defaults       0 0
none       /dev/pts   devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/hda3  swap       swap    defaults        0 0

I have got a windows installation on the C: drive, i chose not to mount it in Linux. The next two partitions are hda2 and hda3 and they show up on this table, they are the ext2 linux native partition and the swap partition. I have got the D :( win) partition mounted on here (it's hda5 because it's a logical partition within a physical partition, to make it a secondary partition in windows) and as you can see, the settings for the cdrom, the floppy, and the win partition allow any user to access it...
good luck!

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.

lost:

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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Mandrake was just nice enough to probe for fat drives.  Fuck fat anyways.  Pull your data off and format with xfs or ext3 at least dammit.  No more slow shitty filesystems.

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