How to use or open fat32 file in Linux.

[someonenearHim]

I want some of my JPEG images and some text files in my Linux partition.I have those files on my FAT32 Win98 partition.How can i make them available in Linux.Can i use a floppy both with Linux and Windoze ?Is there any software to link ext2 and FAT32 ?

[bdg1983]

I don't know what distro your using but some create a mapping to your fat32 or fat 16 partition in the /mnt/ directory. There will be mappings to things like your cdrom, floppy windows partitions within this directory . Check and see if there is an entry called windows or some such you'll be able to access your wind98 files from here.

If it's not been created for you we can help you set it up.

Willy

[optech]

if you're using a stock red-hat kernel, it should have FAT32 support compiled in (or as a module i believe).

to mount a drive, prepare a directory for it. usually /mnt is used to temporary mounts.
mkdir /mnt/dos (change 'dos' to whatever you want to name it)

then type
mount -t fat32 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

this assumes that /dev/hda1 (first IDE first partition) is the partition you want to mount.
your windows partition should be available under /mnt/dos