[luau] I need help

[Eric Hattemer]

Something got mixed up in your directions, I think.  Here's what you 
should do.  Boot into windows, figure out what drive letter your fat32 
is.  (This isn't necessary, but will help you keep track of some 
things).  Then boot into linux and create a similarly named directory. 
 You can call it fat32, or you can call it D or E, but just don't put a 
: in there.  You can put that in / or in /mnt.  So you will type a 
command like:
su -;
mkdir /mnt/D;

The next step is to mount the drive.  Make sure it is /dev/hda5.  You 
can verify this with the fdisk command.  
fdisk /dev/hda;
p
q

It will print the partition table.  Then for the mounting (which you 
will need to do every reboot unless you want to put it in your fstab or 
similar).  
mount -t auto /dev/hda5 /mnt/D;

Then if that goes through without error, you should have your files in 
/mnt/D.  Like I said, you can substitute any name you want for this dir, 
but carry that substitution through all of these commands.  You can 
check for that pdf by typing
ls /mnt/D/

Or look though there in some file browser.  

-Eric Hattemer

Felipe Vegan wrote:

> OK He's the deal..
>  
> I'm a new linux user, and I'm trying to share files between Windows 
> and Linux, So that's why I did a extra partion FAT32.
>  
> In Windows I put some files PDF in the FAT32 partition so I could see 
> them on Linux. So thanks to the emails the some of you people send me 
>  (Wish I appreciated very much :-) ). I put on Linux Terminal the 
> commands     mount -t vfat/dev/hda5/mnt/fat32.. I put /dev/hda5 
> because I saw in the hardware browser that was the direction of the 
> FAT32 partion..But now what I have to do to see on Linuxs the files 
> PDF that I put in the FAT32 partition when I was in windows?? Some 
> friend told me that I could see the PDF files in /mnt but I only can 
> see the floppy and the cd folders when I'm there.. So what I need to do??
>  
> Felipe