redhat 9 "seeing" another partition

[juicelooser]

I just installed RedHat 9, and I also have Windows XP installed. They are on separate partitions, and I have another partition for a place to put files for both to use. In Linux, I can't figure out how to mount this so I can access it. Any ideas? Also, does anyone know of a good getting started tutorial for RedHat? I looked at the one at RH's site, but I'd like something that's a little more geared for someone new to Linux.

Thanks.

[kilgoretrout]

I assume your XP is on an NTFS partition. NTFS is a closed proprietary filesystem owned by microsoft. Red Hat is very conservative about these kinds of things and has elected not to include NTFS support in thier distro, similar to not including mp3 support. Here's a link to a How To describing how to add NTFS support to redhat:

http://www.linuxiso.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2708

Note, linux has only read support for NTFS at this time. Never try to write to an NTFS partition with linux; doing so risks corrupting the filesystem and loosing all your data. Most people that use XP with NTFS create a FAT32 partition that both linux and XP can read and write to for transfering data between the two.

[juicelooser]

Sorry, I guess I didn't explain myself completely-

I have 3 partitions: XP, Linux, and a Shared partition. The shared partition is FAT32, and I want to use it to hold files that both XP and Linux can read. It doesn't seem like I can access it in Linux, how would I be able to do that? I've tried using the "mount" command, but I can't really figure out which /dev/hdan to use.

[beckx020]

Check out http://www.justlinux.com/ They have lots of info to get you started.

[juicelooser]

Awesome! That site helped a lot, thanks for the tip!