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Tom wrote:

> 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
> --
> My knose.  I was using a knife and a kfork[2] at the time, and had
> pfilled up my pneumatic tires earlier.
> KDE kutlery? Konsole is silly enough, but that... Agh.
> I suppose Gnome enthusiasts use gnives and gforks, then?

Tom..
In order to view non-Linux floppies, bypass the /etc/fstab file. You
must change the settings in the  '/etc/fstab' file
Change the third column to 'msdos' instead of 'ext 2' using 'vi
/etc/fstab'
(walk to the line with your arrow key, put the cursor on E, press r
key... type:
'msdos' to change it. Press 'esc' key and then type ':wq" to save it.
then when you have a Windows floppy in your drive.. mount it 'mount
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy'
that should do it!  to unmount all you have to do is type 'umount
/dev/fd0'

Elisabeth

elisabeth wrote in message <38E6C646.5D394C66@snip.net>...
>Tom wrote:
>
>> 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
>> --
>> My knose.  I was using a knife and a kfork[2] at the time, and had
>> pfilled up my pneumatic tires earlier.
>> KDE kutlery? Konsole is silly enough, but that... Agh.
>> I suppose Gnome enthusiasts use gnives and gforks, then?
>
>Tom..
>In order to view non-Linux floppies, bypass the /etc/fstab file. You
>must change the settings in the  '/etc/fstab' file
>Change the third column to 'msdos' instead of 'ext 2' using 'vi
>/etc/fstab'
>(walk to the line with your arrow key, put the cursor on E, press r
>key... type:
>'msdos' to change it. Press 'esc' key and then type ':wq" to save it.
>then when you have a Windows floppy in your drive.. mount it 'mount
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy'
>that should do it!  to unmount all you have to do is type 'umount
>/dev/fd0'
>
>Elisabeth
>

Elisabeth

That should be "press R key... type"

r replaces a single character, R replaces  characters until you press 'esc'

--
Conor Daly

conor.NOSPAM.daly@met.NOSPAM.ie

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

"Tom" <hammerheads@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

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

Are you talking about accessing DOS/Windows-formated floppy disks
from Linux, or accessing DOS/Windows-formatted hard drives from
Linux?

Both can be done.

--
Johnno (johnno@nospam.casebook.org)
http://usrwww.optusnet.com.au/~japp

i am talking about accessing DOS/Windows-formated floppy disks from Linux.

Tom <hammerheads@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:38e68d51$0$6537@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> 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
> --
> My knose.  I was using a knife and a kfork[2] at the time, and had
> pfilled up my pneumatic tires earlier.
> KDE kutlery? Konsole is silly enough, but that... Agh.
> I suppose Gnome enthusiasts use gnives and gforks, then?
>
>

"Tom" <hammerheads@optusnet.com.au> writes:

> i am talking about accessing DOS/Windows-formated floppy disks from Linux.
> 

Have a look at the mtools package - it comes with RH and most other
distros. Try man mtools - you may already have it installed. 

Tim
> > My knose.  I was using a knife and a kfork[2] at the time, and had
> > pfilled up my pneumatic tires earlier.
> > KDE kutlery? Konsole is silly enough, but that... Agh.
> > I suppose Gnome enthusiasts use gnives and gforks, then?


-- 
Tim Cross
NorthNet Internet Services
mailto:tcross@northnet.com.au
phone:+61 2 6772 5973

On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:11:57 +1000,
<hammerheads@optusnet.com.au> `Tom' wrote:

>> 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

Tom:

These two commands will work with #1 being the prefered method using the 
vfat file system.

1)  mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 

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

Using mount without the "-t filesystem" argument assumes a Linux ext2 file
system. You can mount FAT16, FAT32 & NTFS windoze partitions, also.
"man mount" for more info.

To unmount:

umount /mnt/floppy


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Robert Heininger wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:11:57 +1000,
> <hammerheads@optusnet.com.au> `Tom' wrote:
> 
> >> 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
> 
> Tom:
> 
> These two commands will work with #1 being the prefered method using the
> vfat file system.
> 
> 1)  mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 
> 2)  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 
> Using mount without the "-t filesystem" argument assumes a Linux ext2 file
> system. You can mount FAT16, FAT32 & NTFS windoze partitions, also.
> "man mount" for more info.
> 
> To unmount:
> 
> umount /mnt/floppy
> 
> --
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For floppies the simplest way I have found is to create 2 entries in the
fstab and 2 mount points in the /mnt directory referring to the same
device /dev/fd0.  

/dev/fd0          /mnt/floppy    msdos   
noauto,owner,user,suid,exec,dev,rw    0 0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/fd0        ext2   
noauto,user,suid,exec,rw,dev    	0 0 
 
If you use a filemanager that automounts such as gentoo or gmc ?kfm you
simply put the floppy in the drive and navigate to floppy or fd0 in the
filesystem depending on  what format the floppies is using. If you use
the usermount program you can mount, unmout or reformat but  you  will
still need a filemanger to  access the files. 

-- 
Paul U Cameron