Installing Red Hat Linux 7.2

[Olger901]

Hi Guys

MY HD is partitioned in 2 parts both FAT
I got a question. I got currently Windows 98 running on my c:\ drive and I would like to install linux on my d:\ drive. But how can I want to install linux this way: I want to be able to see my linux drive in my Windows Explorer so I can copy files to my windows hd. How can I do this. Because when I try to during the install
it says it's not possible to install it to another drive. But it does work when I remove the partition but then Windows won't see it. So how can I install Linux with seeing linux in my windows hd?

[EdgeBlade]

Simple awnser, You can't.

Linux doen't use drives the same way windows does

Someone correct me if I'm wrong

[EdgeBlade]

delete your D partion then you'll be able to install Linux, it uses it's own file system

[AlphaWolf]

Windows will not be able to read or write any ext2 or ext3 partitions (in fact it cant even recognize them, windows just plain sucks, its not designed to be very flexible.). However, linux will be able to read and write to your FAT partition without any problems.

If you realy must read information from your linux EXT2 partition from windows, then go get Explore2FS. Note its very slow and write support is extremely buggy and unreliable.

[Olger901]

well how can i see my windows partitions in linux then?

[Malcolm]

There is automotic FAT16 and FAT32 support in all linux distros, you just have to set a mount point

[Olger901]

How do I make a mount point?

[Mohammed Yousif]

mkdir -p /mnt/fat-c
mount -t vfat /dev/(YOUR_C_PARTITION) /mnt/fat-c

where YOUR_C_PARTITION is one of these depending on your partition table setup :
hda1 , hda2 , hda3 ....
hdb1 , hdb2 , hdb3 ....
hdc1 , hdc2 , hdc3 ....
hdd1 , hdd2 , hdd3 ....
(i.e. if you have the partition you wanna access in the primary channel set as Master, it will probably be hda1)
your C Partition will end up in /mnt/fat-c