From: tkb@fagmed.uit.no (Tor Kristjan Berge) Subject: Re: /etc/mount & DOS Partitions... Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 19:48:01 GMT
>In article <C-AMB.92Oct1134347@uglab16.math.utah.edu> c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston) writes:
>>
>> Hi there...
>>
>> A probably simple question: Can I mount a DOS partition, and
>> -- if so -- is mount supposed to do the job? In the latter
>> case: What options should I pass to mount? Or is there
>> something like "dosmount" around that I haven't seen yet...?
>>
>> ...Wolfram
>>
>Try using: mount -t msdos /dev/XXX /foo/bar
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I'm new to Linux, just downloaded 0.98.1 from nic.funet.fi
yesterday. Anyway, I have a Mitac486 ISA, 8M ram, Build in SVGA, 120MB
HD (Conner or Quantum (sp?), can't remember), 1 3.5" 1.44M floppy and a
3COM Etherlink 2. A nice hardware for running UNIX I thought, unfortunatly
it's not acceptable to have a Linux partition on the harddisk. That's why
I want to (and need to) mount the dos partition on Linux if I want to have
more diskspace that the floppy can provide. This is what happened:
# mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
What's up? Since I cannot recompile the kernel ( a: I only have one
floppydisk and b: there is not space on the rootdevice for the kernel
source), there is not much I can do about the source. Is it something
wrong with my hardware? Is this a knowned bug? What's up??????
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