[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux



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 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 vfat.  It isn't FAT32; that's
>something else again, not dependent, I believe, on OSR2.
>
>--Pete


______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .


Reply to: