I want to install my FAT32 formatted 500 GB ATA/133 hard drive in my linux box to make a home file/media server. I hear my BIOS already supports 48 bit LBA drives, so what do I need to do to get it to work on the Linux/OS end???

I'll be using Ubuntu 6.06 (currently Fedora Core 5 is installed, but I want to change to Ubuntu).

TIA

Depending on what filesystem you are using and the position of the driver (master/slave, primary/secondary), depends on the commands used.

If you are using reiserfs with the drive as seconday/master:
mkdir /pub/shares - this make the mount point to mount the drive
fdisk /dev/hdc - then delete the FAT partition and create a Linux one, type m for help
mkreiserfs /dev/hdc - this formats the partition as reiser
mount /dev/hdc /pub/shares - this mount the drive in the /pub/shares directory

You will want to edit your /etc/fstab so that the drive is mount at boot time. Add this line you your /etc/fstab.
/dev/hdc /pub/shares reiserfs defaults 1 1

what? so you mean Linux can't mount the drive automatically? and I can't simply make SMB shares from the drive? it's already in FAT32 with 300+ gigs of stuff