[Wolves] Hello - first post from me !

[James Rogers]

Tim Childe wrote:

>Hello
>
>I've finally got around to posting here, but I suppose I better
>introduce myself first !
>
>After years of on and off attempts at Linux, I've decided to give it
>ago again.  Mainly due to some bloke dropping in at our college to
>talk at my students and saying how good Ubuntu was compared to the old
>stuff !!
>
>More personal waffle, blah blah blah......
>
>So anyway, I've installed Ubuntu, and it's going sooooooooo much
>better than my other attempts.
>
>However, I have some problems that need urgent fixing.
>If you could help me with these I promise to try and work out the less
>urgent ones myself first ;-)
>
>1) GRUB insists on booting Ubuntu as default, but I need it to default
>to my Win98SE system.  My 4 year old only knows to hit the power
>button, wait, click on the big E !!
>I've tried editing the entries in the options on startup, but they
>don't save.  Is there a file somewhere like boot.ini in NT ???
>
>2) Ubuntu doesn't mount my FAT drives.  I got this working with RH a
>couple of years ago.  I remember it was MOUNT something or other, and
>to make it automatic I put the lines in a file somewhere.  I've failed
>with my attempts at MOUNT, and can't remember the file even if I
>remember how to do it !!
>Without my FAT drives i have to boot Win98 to do my work - which
>defeats the object.
>
>My system has 2 HDDs
>First has 3 partitions (C,D, & E in Windows)
>Second is just for Linux and has whatever Ubuntu did when it installed
>
>
>
>I have a few more problems, but those 2 are vital and urgent.
>
>Help
>
>Tim.C
>
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1 http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html
2 http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html
ie mount -t vfat /dev/hda[1,2,3] /mnt/windows[1,2,3]