Ultraman Heng

i'm running a compaq presario laptop with a 37gb HDD split into 4 partitions. 1 - 7gb - winxp 2 - 7gb - fc3 (root) 3 - 20gb - vfat partition (usr/var/ E: ) 4 - 100mb - boot 5 - 900mb - swap (448mb ram) i spent the entire day reading the forums and it was suggested that the shared drive be a vfat partition, but no one ever mentioned where to mount it to, druid would only let me mount it on usr/var/ or something like that. it's now filled with all these folders making it really messy, can i move them to the fc3 partition? how should i do it? and after that, where should i mount the vfat partition to? and how to go about doing that too? could anyone also point me out to any links for setting up home networks, desktop customisations and just overall linux tips?

what should i put in fstab to get it to auto mount?

i managed to create the vfat partition, but it's a logical partition, not a primary one. is that going to affect anything? -- i went into xp and formatted it as fat32, enabled sharing and it works on the network. but in fc3 i can't write to it unless i'm in the root account. i tried changing the permissions in root but it wouldn't let me, saying i don't have the necessary permissions. i also want to get it to mount at boot, but i'm not sure how. i'm looking at the fstab file now but i don't understand a thing. here're some screenshots. http://www.project-h.per.sg/img/misc/store.jpg http://www.project-h.per.sg/img/misc/fdisk.jpg http://www.project-h.per.sg/img/misc/fstab.jpg [Edited by ultraman heng on 2005-02-13 02:38:44] [Edited by ultraman heng on 2005-02-13 02:39:02]

i tried partitioning using the install disk, all it did was do a reinstall of FC3 where i didn't even get the chance to make any changes. i tried using the winxp CD, but it wouldn't boot, the blue screend doesn't appear, it just remains blank. i didn't really want to ask this here, but how exactly do you connect FC3 to a win xp file sharing network without internet sharing? all my search results were either all linux to linux conenctions, or setting up of a linux host. [Edited by ultraman heng on 2005-02-13 00:33:40]

ok i just reinstalled FC3 as you said, xp, boot, fc3, swap. but now i have a 20gb unpartitioned space sitting there that i can't touch. how should i get that formatted into vfat? -- ok i just tried to create that vfat partition from the instructions on this page but the new partition was of a very small size, infact, only 1 sector; 4864-4864 i think the problem is that while hda1 is the win xp partition, hda2 is an extended win95 FAT partition where hda 5 6 7 are all a part of this partition. i noticed that their sector numbers are all within hda2. hda2 starts from 915 and ends at 4863. hda5 6 7 are between 915 - 1837. when i created those partitions during the linux installations, should i have made them primary partitions? [Edited by ultraman heng on 2005-02-11 09:18:29]

thanks for the reply. what's the 4th /home partition for? does it have to be that large? grub should be on the MBR if i remember right.