I did the hd install last night and it was the simplest OS install I have done since DOS itself. Kudos to the authors on this one.

I will be content to learn my way around linux with library books and the usual poke and hope methods, but I would like to ask a question about mounting other file systems, and general drive usage. I can't decide what forum to ask this in, but I really don't want to join 12 mailing lists and html through a ton of other pages, so with fingers crossed:.......

Does the Debian Kernel support FAT and FAT32 as compiled in the knoppix install? I tried to mount a drive and it said FAT was not supported.......

I created a 2G partition and formatted it FAT to use as a "buffer" for files going back and forth between systems, as I don't feel good about writing to other partitions(Win2K and OS/2) so this will be where I dump stuff to share.

My fstab file does not show this partition, so I am lost as to how to get Debian to see the partition so that I can mount it. I would rather learn on this scratch partition than go screwing up the rest of my system.

I know I have much to learn, but I appreciate any help I can get here.

Thanks much for any assistance.

John