Hi

I'm having two problems with RedHat 9:
1.I'm trying to create a shared FAT32 partition for both windows and linux following the forum tutorial, but when I typed 'df', it onlys shows hda2 and no hda1?
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 9518644 6889072 2236624 76% /
none 256396 0 256396 0% /dev/shm


I checked /dev/hda1 using more, it gave some messed up display:
[root@Red_Hat_LInux dev]# more hda1
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NTLDR is missing)
Disk error
Press any key to restart


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Invalid system disk
Disk I/O error
Replace the disk, and then press any key
--More--(0%)
etc.

2.I messed up my iptables, and I cannot connect to google or gmail so I used a script from the forum, and it worked for about 12 hours after I executed the script and then stop working (can't connect to google/gmail), and I have to execute the script again, here's the script I'm using:
cd /sbin/
./iptables -F
./iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
./iptables -P FORWARD DROP
./iptables -P INPUT DROP
./iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
./iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
./iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

Thank you very much

Did you mount it?

no, i don't know how to mount it, help

when I try to mount hda1, it says:
[root@Red_Hat_LInux dev]# mount hda1
mount: can't find /dev/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

here's my fstab:
[root@Red_Hat_LInux etc]# more fstab
LABEL=LINUX / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,u
nhide,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r
o 0 0

Thank you

yea ~~ I got it

I need to create a mount point, so:
cd /mnt/
mkdir windows
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

since my harddisk is FAT32 for Windows partition, I can access it directly from Linux

but the iptables problem still seems strange

To mount fat32 automaticaly at startup, you should have smth like the following in your /etc/fstab:
umask=000 allows all users to read/write/execute on fat32.
umask=022 allows avarage users to read/execute, and r/w/e for root.

ok, cool thanks!