mounting partition at boot
 

When I formatted my HD I left a partition for use between windows xp and redhat 9 linux: hda8: linux; D: windows. in order to access this drive under linux I have to mount it using
which then allows me to read and write all the contents therein. But!, it's annoying to do this every time, so how do I have my computer mount it at boot? Thank you in advance for your replies.

write the mount command to you fstab file in "etc/fstab"

yea, I read that somewhere. but I don't understand what's going on in the fstab file. i will read http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html and if I get it...I'm alright. but feel free to explain if you feel you can do a good job...just keep in mind that I'm a semi-noob at Linux