RE: Drive mounting
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:wolfsong333@yahoo.com]
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
wolfsong333@yahoo.com
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.
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