> Woodrow Lovett wrote: > > In dselect i made the selection of a harddisk to install from. I have > down loaded the packages into a file folder named project along with > a-out. this folder is located in C:\MyDocuments\project\dpkg. > dselect ask for a block device., Which I assume to be the harddrive > i.e.:hda or some other name in linux. Upon all entries so far, the > program informs me that It is not a block device. > If someone knows how this is done please advise.
You need to have the vfat file system compiled into your kernel. Assuming you have that, you'll need to mount the Windows partition before you can access it. You can run fdisk or cfdisk to see which partition is your Windows partition (don't make any changes! just look). It's likely to be /dev/hda1 (first partition "1" on the first hard drive on the first IDE controller "hda"). Then mount it with a command like: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win95 The /Win95 directory will need to exist before you do this command. On the other hand, now that I reread your description, I think you don't need to mount the partition first; it seems as if dselect will mount it for you on-the-fly. Hopefully this will give you the clue you need. If not, ask the list (not just me) again.
