Subject: Re: Reading a dos partition
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 20:22:06 AKST
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On Monday 28 January 2002 07:20 pm, Adam Elkins wrote:
> I've go this box dual booting Red Hat and WinNT, I can mount the
> first harddrive( mount -t msdos /mnt/dev/hda1 ), but I can't seem to
> look at it? Until I get wine or something like that woking, I'd like
> to use the dos partition to download mp3's and such, then copy them
> from the dos drive to the ext3 drive. Is this even possible? Once I
> do the above, do I just cd to it? # cd /dev/hda1 ? Am I missing
> something?
You need to have a directory to mount the partition on in Linux, i.e.
'mkdir /mnt/winnt'
Then it could be: 'mount -t auto /dev/hda1 /mnt/winnt' You need
vfat/msdos support available for your kernel.
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Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
email:pabi@gci.net
Phone:(907)276-0461 Fax:(907)258-0461
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