On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In Debian linux, I have certian files that I down-loaded via. a terminal > emulator in dos, and it is on my dos partition, which is hda. How do I > access this drive and my flopply drive fd0 in linux?
to access dos partitions, you need to make sure you have module for dos filesystem installed (use modconf). Then, as root, type "mount /dev/hda? /mnt -t msdos" where ? is the number the dos partition, and /mnt is any empty directory that you want to use as a mount point. You can also edit your /etc/fstab file to make the dos partition mounted every time you boot up automatically. Floppies are mounted pretty much the same way (just replace /dev/hda by /dev/fd0), but I would recommend installing mtools. With mtools, you don't have to mount the floppy rather just type the dos commands preceded by "m" (like mtools, mdir, etc.) > > Also how to I get back to the program that ran initially[first boot off > the boot-floppy that was created], which asked what packages [ie. > x-windows, comm programs etc] I wanted to install. I have since > downloaded some of these packages and have searched everywere for that > nice colorful installation program on linux. > > Thanks. > > That would be dselect, right? __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation.... Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 15 Jan 1997 23:31:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 20455 invoked from network); 15 Jan 1997 20:48:20 -0000 Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 1997 20:48:20 -0000 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:49:26 -0500 From: Ami Ganguli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ganguli Consulting Inc. X-Sender: Ami Ganguli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Alexander Gieg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Usu=E1rios?= Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Suggestion: *Professional* CD distributions X-Priority: Normal References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"yFd103.0.nr3.rBKto"@master.debian.org> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/3606 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dale Scheetz wrote: > I still offer 1.1.13 (a very stable release), but have had no interest in > this CD since well before 1.2 was released. > Maybe I'm just not marketing it properly, but I can guarantee that if > there was any interest there would be a product. Marketing is part of it, but there also needs to be something of substance that's special about the release. I'd like to know that if I take this CD to a remote site (away from my 'Net connection) I can install the thing in X hours and leave on time.. Things should be predictable. That requires another level of testing and perhaps special documentation - an up-to-date hardware list, for example. If we can produce such a thing I would definately use it, and I think other people would who need to get something done on a schedule. Regards... ... Ami. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]