FAT32 Partion

[erhard]

Hi Guys!!
I`m using Fedora croe 3 for about 1 month and its the first Linux distro i hae used. Any way how to i save stuff onto my windows FAT32 Partition i´ve tried Livecds like knoppix and my windows partition was under mnt/hdb1 but with Fedora theres nothing there and also how can i change to KDE?

Thanks in advance.

Erhard

[Quella]

If you know your windows partition info (hda1, hdb1, etc), you just need to issue the command

mount -t vfat /dev/partition_info /mnt/locacion_you_desire

So I do something like this...

mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows

That will mount mu windows fat32 partition under the directory found in /mnt/windows. You will need to make sure the directory you are mounting to exists.

Hope this helps.

Quella

[Alfred]

Originally Posted by erhard

and also how can i change to KDE?

When at the login screen click on Session at the bottom of the login window. Select the desktop you want loaded when you log in next. To change the default desktop to KDE type the following in a terminal window:

switchdesk kde

. Alternatively you can change it back to Gnome with:

switchdesk gnome

[mha]

you can also insert this line
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/windows vfat ro,umask=000 0 0

in /ect/fstab
where hdxy should refer to you FAT32 partition

[BoHu]

This web page explains it all very well.
http://foolish.fedorausers.org/mount/

[Alfred]

I have set my FAT32 drive (hdb1) to automount at boot-up; however how do I get this drive to show-up in my File Browser without having to drill down to /mnt/data all the time?

[BoHu]

create a new mount point.

mount /dev/hda1 /home/username/whatever

[Alfred]

As my FAT32 partition is on a separate hard drive I would like it to show up at the top level in the GUI (called Computer:/// in Gnome Nautilus). My Floppy Drive, CD ROM and DVD Writer show up there already. Any idea how I add it there?

[BoHu]

I am still a newbie so I may be wrong but I think this is how you do it.

In a terminal window type-

mkdir /fat32
mount /dev/hdb1 /fat32

mkdir /fat32 creates a top level folder called fat32
mount is the command to mount something :=)
/dev/hdb1 is the location of the thing to be mounted. Replace hdb1 with the location of your fat32 partition.
/fat32 is where you want it to show up in your file tree. The folder you created earlier.

You will have some permission troubles to solve and you will probably want the partition to auto mount each time you start Fedora. Those things are explained in this web page here -
"How to access a windows hard drive in Fedora" http://foolish.fedorausers.org/mount/