Should be: mkdir /dos mount -t msdos /dev/hdb6 /dos
The mkdir command only has to be given once. The mount command needs to be given everytime you log in (or you can edit the /etc/fstab file so that the partition is automatically mounted). The second logical partition on the second drive is hdb6. The first logical is hdb5. The primaries are hdb1, hdb2, hdb3 but you don't have any primary partitions on the second drive (which is a good thing). Run "cfdisk /dev/hdb" to see which partitions are on the second drive and how /dev names are assigned. By the way, I would probably do mkdir /dos_e mount -t msdos /dev/hdb6 /dos_e instead. You can then mount /dos_c and /dos_d later if you want. You might want to reconfigure System Commander, it boots Linux off of a second drive just fine for me. (It should for you too as long as you can access the second drive via BIOS routines.) Just run dselect again and change your access option to point to your /dos directory. Sorry, I can't help with the zip drive (don't have one) or ethernet card (I've got the same card, but haven't installed it.) Good luck Tony Richardson -----Original Message----- From: Cristov Russell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 18, 1998 5:43 AM To: debian-user Subject: Drive mounting Hello all. I'm very green at Linux and unfortunately no one that I know is currently using it. I'm having a little trouble understanding how to mount a drive. I have to physical hard drives and a parallel zip drive and I am dual booting with Win95. The primary HD has a single FAT16 partition and second HD has an extended partition with two logical drives also FAT16. Linux is also on the second HD (I'm still booting from a floppy BTW) and I'm using System commander as my loader. I've tried using the following command immediately after logging in as 'root': mkdir dos mount -t msdos /dev/hdb3 /dos I get an error that says the mount point doesn't exist. Also, i'm attempting to access the second logical drive (E in DOS). Is the syntax correct? What do I use to access the zip drive? The reason I want to mount the drive is to install the packages I downloaded. How do I run dselect again after going through the setup. One more. I have a Linksys EtherPCI II Lan card in my system. They say that I should choose the NE2000 driver. When I choose the driver and try to install it, setup says that the I/O address must be specified. I know what IRQ (9) the card is using and I can look in Windows for the I/O settings it's using (6400 starting) but I still can't install the driver. Any suggestions? TIA Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW - If anyone could suggest a really good book I'd appreciate it. I have a copy of Linux In A Nutshell and it covers mostly command syntax. I'd like something along the line of a users guide. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
