i just did a clean install of Red Hat 7.2 and i edited the fstab file to be able to mount my windows partition but...the mount point is not being created.

/dev/hda1 /C vfat noauto 0 0

that's the line i entered, it worked with Red HAt 7.1 but no such luck with 7.2, it keeps telling me that the mount point doesn't exist. what should i attemp next?

Ummm... create the mount point?

nb: /C is not the same as /c

Try this

/dev/hda1....../mnt/Dos_1......vfat.......user,umask=000...0..0

Forget the dots

You'll have to make the Dos_1 dir on your linux system

cd /mnt
mkdir Dos_1
or mkdir C in your case

Leaving all the mounts in the /mnt dir will keep your system clean and you'll know where it is later
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the user option will allow users to see the mount and the umask option will give normal user write access to the Dos partition else only root will have write permissions to the Dos partition


Succes

It was a pretty weird thing but when i created the /C directory before editing the fstab file everything went smoothly. i guess i was doing it in the wrong order.

i just did

cd /mnt
mkdir

cd ..
cd /etc
vi fstab
/dev/hda1 /C vfat noauto 0 0

and i was able to mount that drive immediately.

and believe it or not i finally got my machine to connect to my network and the internet. now i just have to figure out all the productivity programs.

just two small questions what happened to the commands netcfg and linuxconf in Red Hat 7.2??

I guess netcfg is replaced with netconf (at least it is in Mandrake8.1 now which is based on RedHat) and linuxconf is linuxconf but both of them in /sbin directory, just make sure /sbin is in you $PATH, or type /sbin/netconf in the prompt.
Happy New Year!!!

linuxconf has been removed from the default install, becuase of its tendancy to trash people's systems.

Try webmin, its a lot more reliable.

A lot of people do a su to become root .
But the envirement of root is not set that way.
If you do a su - root then you'll get the root envirement.

Forgive me my poor english

then all the PATH'S are set for root

So you can type
service httpd start and so on: if you do this after a su then you'll get the error service not found or something like that