i have 2 hard drives: one is master and there is win95 and all other files installed on it, and second is primary slave with linux.
now i want to mount master drive to /mnt ( i want to listen to mp3 collection on it under linux.

will command
# mount /dev/hda vfat /mnt/windows

mount it correctly? (providing that i already created a folder windows in /mnt)

thanks in advance

You need to use "-t" for type or let the system guess and also add the partition number- try:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /mnt/windows

Where X is the partition number - look at the output from:
fdisk -l

I think your syntax is a little off; try:

# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

The general syntax is:

# mount -t <file system> <device file> <mount point>

Also your device file was off(/dev/hda). You have to designate the partition your mounting on a hard drive which for the primary master drive will be in the form /dev/hdax where 'x' corresponds to the partition number on that drive. For a win 95 install that will almost certainly be hda1, i.e. the first primary partition on the drive since win 95 insists on being installed there.

ye on most new distros i think it wont be a problem even if you dont mention the fs type (not needed for vfat for sure)

on my rh9
# mount /dev/hda* /mnt/windows

works fine...

if you want to mount it at boot time , then include an entry in /etc/fstab

........... and for your fstab entry:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=000,defaults 0 0

make sure you substitue in your partition device name and mount point

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........... and for your fstab entry:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=000,defaults 0 0

make sure you substitue in your partition device name and mount point
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I've done so and now i get the following message when I run HALT to shutdown computer:

[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab

is there anything wrong?

Well I think the error is pretty explanitory - just add a blank line to the end of /etc/fstab

i havent noticed that before ..

as porous said ...you can do exactly the same in slackware 9.1 as in rh

just go to /mnt and create a directory named windows. than open terminal and write

mount /dev/hda# mnt/windows

(where # stands for a number of your Win partition)

it should work if you did everything properly