how do i set my windows partition(hdb2) to mount at startup?

ummmm... i searched on this site and didnt come up with anything before i posted.... then i searched again and found it. Ya can delete this thread.

all i got to do is add:
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0
to /etc/fstab

Just to clarify for any newbs reading this:

/dev/hdb2 is the partition on which his/her Windows partition resides. This can normally be found out by issuing the command (as root) fdisk -l

/mnt/windows is the directory onto which the Windows partition will be mounted. Unlike Windows/DOS, Linux can access filesystems from mountpoints, which may be anywhere on the directory tree - no need for drive letters! Note: the mount-point directory needs to exist prior to the filesystem being mounted. So, in this case, the directory /mnt/windows will need to exist before you can access the files.

vfat is the type of filesystem. Windows 9x uses vfat (although MS call it Fat16 or Fat32), while the NT based OSs use ntfs (which is not as easy to get going under Linux). Linux uses ext2/ext3/reiserfs/xfs/jfs/anything-you-likefs, and CDroms usually use ISO9660, although some CDRWs and DVDs may use UDF.

The others are (a little) more complicated, and you really should either just use the above, or read about it by running man mount.

Just thought I'd share this with you, incase you don't have as much luck finding this in the archives.

Sweet breakdown of info Thymox, I will rate this one so that it can be easily found again when the question arises.

Cool

mkdir /mnt/win

vi /etc/rc.d/rclocal

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb2 /mnt/win

no need for setting up this in /etc/rc.local, if fat partition gets corrupted - not fail to mount - you will never boot use
auto option in /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/windows vfat auto,user,umask=000,defaults 0 0