[ILUG] coping files from win98 to linux in a dual boot system

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:25:07PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
 Conor Daly (Met) thought...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Boyko <jboyko at sympatico.ca>
> 
> 
> >hi all, quick question from a newbie to linux
> >
> >can I copy files or directories directly from win98 to my home directory in
> linux (RH
> >6.2)?
> >
> >if so how do you do it?
> >
> 
> For a regular thing, you need to edit your /etc/fstab to include a line of
> the form
> 
> /dev/hda1  /mnt  vfat  rw,user,auto,noexec
> 
> This will automatically mount your Windows partition at boot time.  I used
> to be able to mount my own FAT partitions read-write for any user but I seem
> to have forgotten how to do so under RH6.2 (Anyone tell me how?).
> 
This is what I have in my /etc/fstab for my windows D: drive

/dev/hdb2               /d              vfat    user,noauto,noexec,dev,suid,rw 0 0

I can mount this as an ordinary user with 

mount /d

This allows a user to mount the partition rw themselves.
-- 
Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)