2003-12-11, 04:59 PM
I assume you have some sort of dualboot already setup, i'm not going into that here, but in my examples below i have a triple boot win98/winxp/red hat 9 linux system.
Open a console and as root type
fdisk -l
to list the partitions on your linux/windows system.
the output should look something like this:-
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1360 10924168+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1361 4863 28137847+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1361 3059 13647186 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 3060 3077 144553+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3078 4776 13647186 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 4777 4863 698796 82 Linux swap
The fdisk -l command (that's as lowercase L as in list) we did above tells us that Windows 98 in this case, is on /dev/hda1, don't worry that it refers to it as Win95 thats not important. We now have enough info to start mounting it.
Now you must create a directory that will hold the windows 98 'mount point'.
To do that type
mkdir /home/anyweb/win98
or similar. It will be read/write as root but thats sufficient for this TIP. Once you have created the directory, now is time to mount it, so as root type the following:-
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /home/anyweb/win98
The two important parts above are
/dev/hda1
which we identified with fdisk -l and
/home/anyweb/win98
which is simply a directory that we created to 'hold' the win98 mount.
That's it we are all done, now as root you can read/write to that share (partition or hard disc) with ease. Use chown to change your rights so a normal user can access it if you wish.