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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