Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-13 Thread Carey Evans
"Collin Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got that same error when I ran liloconfig and tried to install LILO on my > Win95 drive. Big mistake :-( I tried to boot Windows 95 with a boot disk > and got an invalid media type error on accessing drive c. Now I have had to > reinstall every thing

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Collin Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got that same error when I ran liloconfig and tried to install LILO on my > Win95 drive. Big mistake :-( I tried to boot Windows 95 with a boot disk > and got an invalid media type error on accessing drive c. Now I have had to > reinstall every thing a

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-12 Thread Collin Rose
I got that same error when I ran liloconfig and tried to install LILO on my Win95 drive. Big mistake :-( I tried to boot Windows 95 with a boot disk and got an invalid media type error on accessing drive c. Now I have had to reinstall every thing after formating my hard drive. ># mount -t vfat

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
> >> One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 > partition > >> OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesystem doesn't yet > >> support the alterations made by OSR2. > >> > >> Matt > > > >I have a bleeding-edge Windows95 OSR2 installation (October1997 OEM) > >and (Debian

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Charles Read
Were you able to "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt" your Win95 partition without any special work? [Eg, I am assuming you *do not* run mkfs over the Win95 partition.] -c > >> One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 partition >> OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesyst

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
> One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 partition > OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesystem doesn't yet > support the alterations made by OSR2. > > Matt I have a bleeding-edge Windows95 OSR2 installation (October1997 OEM) and (Debian) Linux reads it fine as vf

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Matt McClanahan
> On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Charles Read wrote: > > > Here's what I tried: > > > > 0. Looked at /proc/filesystems to verify > > that VFAT was supported. > > > > 1. Ran "dmesg | more" to verify that /dev/hda1 > > was the correct partition. > > > > 2. Ran mount and got this result: > > > > # mount -t

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Charles Read wrote: > Here's what I tried: > > 0. Looked at /proc/filesystems to verify > that VFAT was supported. > > 1. Ran "dmesg | more" to verify that /dev/hda1 > was the correct partition. > > 2. Ran mount and got this result: > > # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt > [MS