[dileep]

I am new bee to Red hat Linux 9 and I installed it on P IV 1.7 Ghz with 256 MB RAM.
Its a clean install and I want to mount the DOS partitions as well.

For this, I logged in as root

and created the required folders in /mnt/Windows

If I want to mount C: in Linux,

I typed the following command..

# fdisk -l
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/Windows/C ( C is created prior to this command)

This also works fine and I can share the files.

The PROBLEM is , whenever I shutdown, and start my system, I need to type these commands everytime. Is there any way (like autoexec.bat in DOS) such that they execute while loading Linux?


Thanks in Advance

regards
Dileep

[codejockey]

Yes. Linux maintains a list of filesystems in the file /etc/fstab. If you add entries for your Windoze filesystems, they will be mounted automatically at boot. For example, on my system, I typically mount my C: and D: Windoze drives with the following entries in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1        /WIN98C          vfat        defaults         1   0
/dev/hda5        /WIN98D          vfat        defaults         1   0

Hope this helps.

[dileep]

Thanks for the reply, I'll try and try to send the result.

Thanks once again

[dileep]

It WORKED!! WORKED !!

Thank you CodeJockey

[codejockey]

You're welcome -- and nice work updating your /etc/fstab file. You can find out more about mounting filesystems on the mount man page; the fstab man page describes more details about the format of the /etc/fstab file. You access man pages by using the man command and specifying the page you are interested in, such as:

man mount
man fstab
etc.

Hope this helps.