Accessing fat32 using best linux

[Ciaran]

How could i mount a fat32 drive (my windows 98 drive)| using best linux. I am a total newbie to linux, and ive never used it before.
Also i know this may sound stupid, but i can find where to change the resolution with best linux.

 

[TheRAt]

1 create a mount point.
#>mkdir /mnt/fat32

2 find out what the fat32 partition is

(as root)
#>fdisk -l /dev/hda
(if the fat32 partition is on the primary master IDE drive, /dev/hdb for primary slave, /dev/hdc for sec. master or /dev/hdd for sec. slave)

3 issue the mount command based on the output from 2

#>mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/fat32
(if the fat32 partition is somewhere else, just substiture the correct partition for /dev/hda1)

Your FAT32 partition should now be available for browsing under /mnt/fat32.

To unmount the command is:

#>umount /mnt/fat32

To automatically mount during system start, edit the /etc/fstab file, and add the following entry at the end

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat32 vfat defaults 1 1 AV
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[ifincham]

Hi,

Just a couple of extra bits to TheRAt's post above:

You <might> have to load the vfat module to memory first :

/sbin/modprobe vfat

Also, on the manual mount command the filesystem type should be specified (or auto) :

mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /mnt/win32

Regards