> > My installation is supposed to be the latest release of Debian..(1.3) The > Dos partition that Windows95 is on is a totally different hard disk and is > the first hard drive. I looked in my linux directory (all over the system) > but found no dos dir. Did i screw up with installation? How can i fix it so > that i can see my files in my dos partition? I think i am missing something > important here .. > Thankz
No you didn't screw up. I believe there's no default directory for mounting DOS/Win file systems. You have to make one yourself. First you have to find what device your dos partion is. Become root and type fdisk -l This may take some time because it tries to access a number of disks that may not exist. On my machine this gives: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 260 524128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 261 261 1023 1538208 5 Extended /dev/hda5 261 261 514 512032+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda6 515 515 530 32224+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 531 531 1023 993856+ 83 Linux native You can see that I have two DOS partitions: one on /dev/hda1 and one on /dev/hda5. To mount them I made two directories in /dosc, and /dosd. You can use any name you like, in your case (1 partition) /dos may be a good idea. Now you have to make the file systems known to linux. I added the following lines to my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /dosc vfat umask=002,gid=100 0 0 /dev/hda5 /dosd vfat umask=002,gid=100 0 0 This makes all files readable, writable and executable by everyone in group 100, which is `users' on my system (see the file /etc/group). After you added a similar line to to /etc/fstab, your system will automatically mount your windows partition at boot time. To mount it now, type mount -a See 'man mount' for the meaning of the options umask=002,gid=100, and for other options. Hope this helps, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
