In answer to your questions. 1. to produce a beep at the lilo prompt where you select which OS to boot in to you would do the following. In linux as root echo -e \\A > /boot/bootmessage.txt then add to your lilo.conf file message=/boot/bootmessage.txt and re-run /sbin/lilo. 2. to access the files on your win 2k partition you have to know a few things. 1. is it formatted with NTFS or FAT32. If it's formatted with NTFS you can only get read only access to the partition, you can't write to it, atleast I don't think you can, it may have been changed in newer kernel modules, but anyway. If it's NTFS you would type something like this mkdir /win2k which makes the mount point that you are going to mount the partition under mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /win2k This is assuming that hda1 is the partition where you have Win 2k installed. If it's not then just substatute the correct partition name in the above mount line. If you want the partition to be mounted every time you boot the computer in to Linux you would add a line similar to the following to your /etc/fstab file /dev/hda1 /win2k ntfs defaults,ro,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 That is all on one line btw. 2. If the partition is formatted with fat32 that is slightly better as you can get read/write access to such partitions. To access a fat32 partition you would do the following: mkdir /win2k to create the mount point mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win2k To mount the partition manually, assuming that /dev/hda1 is the right partition. or add the following line to /etc/fstab to have the computer mount that partition every time you want to boot in to Linux /dev/hda1 /win2k vfat defaults,rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 All on one line. As for samba, no you don't need samba installed. You would only use samba if you were booted in to Linux and you needed to access a windows or another linux partition that lives on another computer, via the network. Hope that helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafi Cohen" <rafic@actcom.co.il> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:09 AM Subject: linux and windows on the same computer > Hi, this question probably appeard quite a lot of time on this list, but as > I am new here I have to arise it again. > If I have a computer on which windows2000 and linux redhat 7.2 are installed > on different partitions, then: > 1. is there any way to access the system selection state? I believe that nor > Windows screen reader neither Linux one is up and running at this stage. Is > there a way to produce a "beep" telling me time to press an appropriate > keystroke to select one of the systems? > 2. May I access the files residing on the Linux partition through Windows? > do I need a software like Samba for this? > I'll appreciate any and every information. Thanks in advace, Rafi. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >