🚀 go-pugleaf

I am assuming you mean floppies right??  If not read on anyway, I've
given some pointers on hard drives too.

Try this:

mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos /mnt/floppy

This assumnes that you have either module or kernel support for the
"msdos" (short file names) file system, which is pretty standard on
RedHat these days.  You must also have a mount point /mnt/floppy which
should have been created for you during install.  If you want long
file names, replace "msdos" with "vfat".

If on the other hand you want to access your Win9x partitions (hard
drives) from linux the procedure is pretty much the same but you'll
need to create a mount point like this:

mkdir /mnt/windows

then type:

mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /mnt/windows

/dev/hda1 is the first parition on the Primary master hard-drive which
is usually where windows is, and the "vfat" is long-file name (FAT32)
support which should come standard with RedHat 6.1 (ie, no need to
compile kernels and other messy stuff).

BTW, the general rule for /dev/hd?? works like this:

/dev/hda = Primary Master
/dev/hdb = Primary Slave
/dev/hdc = Secondary Master
/dev/hdd = Secondary Slave

The numbers after the /dev/hd?[0-9] indicate the partition number (if
you were working in Solaris these are called "slices").  You will need
to know each partition that you intend on mounting, but if there is
only one windows partition on the disk, it will always be 1.  Things
get a little messy with logical drives but if you need help, e-mail me
:-)

Cheers,

James

On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 10:03:16 +1000, "Tom" <hammerheads@optusnet.com.au>
did enlighten us all with:

>hi there
>can i use disks from windoze to my linux box?
>if yes, how do i do it?
>i am using rh6.1
>thanx in advance
>tom