Mounting msdos drives 1

[puremagic]

I'm running Suse 6.1 (for a week now)- in peaceful coexistence with Win98 and WinNT - and need to transfer large files like MP3's into the LINUX environment. When trying to mount as stated in the manual:<br>
" mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dosa "<br>
I get the error message "mount point does not exist". I tried more or less everything, including mtools, but when trying to change the directory there it seems to look for C: as a scsi drive. Furthermore, LINUX mounts my CD-Rom drive, but does not seem to care about the nature of the filesystem on there - again, I would need to mount it as msdos type to read MP3s and AVIs. I would appreciate any suggestions.

 

[silverwolffe]

To mount your Win98/NT partition you need to mount it as a vfat drive (I'm assuming you used fat32);<br>
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mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosa<br>
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You may need to change the 'hda1' to your actual partion number. The directory 'dosa' must already exist. Just go to 'cd /mnt' then 'mkdir dosa'. Now you have a directory named dosa in your mount directory (mnt).<br>
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If it's a fat16 drive, (ie; =&lt;2 Gb) then the command is;<br>
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mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosa<br>
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Hope this helps!<br>
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Have Fun <br>
Sterling

 

[puremagic]

Thanks, I finally managed to get it working.<br>