On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Mitchell wrote: > 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 That should be a lower case "a" rather than the upper case given: case is important in linux. So the modified line: echo -e \\a > /boot/bootmessage.txt > ... > > 2. May I access the files residing on the Linux partition > > through Windows? There was a package for this in the win9x days, I believe, but I haven't heard anything about it for a while, so I'm not sure if it has been maintained, and can't remember the name. Most of us are hoping it has conveniently died, I suspect. <grin> The prospect of having linux files conveniently accessible through such a dramatically insecure operating system (successors to dos/win9x have proven even more insecure), without the normal linux permission protection is not a pleasant concept.... If you find the package, and it still works, you want to think carefully before installing it, thereby adding convenient insecurity to your disks. -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html