Subject: Re: Reading a dos partition
From: Adam Elkins (LinuxRobot@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 11:38:31 AKST
Ok, I had to mkdir /mnt/winnt, and I can mount thda1, and cd to it, I can ls
and see everything, but I can't seem to cd to it's dir's.....
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 08:30 am, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Usually on a RedHat install on a dual boot box, rh makes a directory for
> mounting your windows partition '/mnt/windows'. I not, put a
> subdirectory under /mnt for it. 'mkdir /mnt/windows' or /mnt/nt or
> whatever. You will need to be root to do this. mount it with 'mount -t
> vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows', assuming windows is on hda1. You need to
> be root here too.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 19:41, Justin Dieters wrote:
> > Is /mnt/dev/hda1 a folder in your directory tree? If not, make a folder
> > somewhere where you want to mount the partition. (If you make your
> > folder somewhere else other than /mnt/dev/hda1, substitute the correct
> > path in the instructions below)
> >
> > Then to mount it you would do "mount -t <type> <device> <mount point>"
> > In the case you are describing below, you would do "mount -t vfat
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/dev/hda1"
> >
> > If the device isn't mounted, when you go to /mnt/dev/hda1, it will
> > appear to be just an empty directory. Also note that you "cd" to the
> > mount point (/mnt/dev/hda1), and not the device itself (/dev/hda1).
> >
> > I use "vfat" for my windows filesystem type, but you may need to
> > substitute it with "ntfs" or "msdos", depending on your setup.
> >
> > Hope this helps, if not, let me know and I'll try some more to get you
> > up and running. :)
> >
> > Justin
> > www.enderakonline.com
> >
> > 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?
> > >
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