can't access from fat32 hd
 

Hi

I recently managed to get my computer set up working great. i have two hard drives (both 120GB). the first formatted to fat32, with all me data on it. the second with windows and FC5 duel booting fantastically. for more see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=430638 . however there is one thing not working.

In linux i cant see the first hard drive with all me files on it.

this could be me not knowing my way around linux to get to them, but i would have thought it be obvious.

how do i get to my files?

Caspar

Linux can probably see it, the problem seems to be that it's not mounted. Try it first manually... Open a terminal and then run su to switch to root. Then...
mkdir /mnt/win_1
or just create any empty directory
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_1
I guess that the partiton on the 1st disk is /dev/hda1 and I'm probably right. Do you get an error when running the command? If not, it's working OK. Look into /mnt/win_1. You should see your files.

Let us know when you reach this stage. Then we can make it permanent and acessible for all users.

yep that works. its not hda1, its hdb1 though.

so how do i make it perminant?

edit /etc/fstab that'll handle boot time mounting

You can search these forums or google for the finer details but i am sure you can get a good idea of it's format by looking at it. You will need the umask=000 option in order to use it properly, search here for how to do it (i KNOW there's loads of posts on it)

Edit /etc/fstab and add something like:

that has worked, thanks very much. one last question that is optional.

it loads the hard drive into a folder, but can i have it come up in its own place in my computer, where file system and my CD drives are listed? is that just a case of changing the entry in /etc/fstab, but what would i change it to?

The entries in the computer thing are just links to the CD mount points. I dont know how they're made though.