[rhn-users] RE: doubt in linux

[venkatasubramaniam <ayya vsnl net>]

dear jonathan,ehsan

        i meant as part of the boot.i have a primary partition and 2 logical
partition under windows.all are hda and vary between 1,5,6 for c:,d:,e:.i
opened fstab and added the following lines
   /dev/hda1    /mnt/hda1    vfat     defaults     0 0
   /dev/hda5    /mnt/hda5    vfat     defaults     0 0
   /dev/hda6    /mnt/hda6    vfat     defaults     0 0
even after this, it didn't work.when i used the mount command later, it says
that the drives are not found.
        give me some ideas.
thanks.
badri.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Jefferies [mailto:jonathanjefferies alamedanet net]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:22 PM
To: ayya vsnl net; redhat users
Subject: Re: doubt in linux


Do you mean to mount temporarily or as part of boot?
To mount the disks during boot:
   in /etc/fstab you would add lines like:
/dev/hdb1   /home/dos      vfat    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdd1   /mnt/dos       dos     defaults        0 0

to find out what the entries mean "man fstab".
Remember that disks are known defined in /dev as hd[a-d][1-X]
where [a-d] refer to hard drives 1-4 and [1-X] refers to the
partition on that hard disk.
Note that you have to have the modules (dll's in window speak )
for vfat or dos files systems installed
in your kernel to be able to read the dos disk. To find out
if the modules are present already look at /proc/modules.
If not already present then install them with modprobe
again see "man modprobe" for details.

To mount a dos floppy disk temporarily use the command mount:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0u1440 /fd0
This also is correct for cdroms
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cd2 -o ro

but to mount a disk across file systems such as sharing on
a network use smbmount as in
smbmount //Pentium_733/733_C /mnt/733_C
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^mount point
               |disk as it's known on the network.
Have Fun!
J.


    hello everyone,
           i am a new user just registered with redhat.i am unable to mount
C:,D: or E:(windows) from linux. even if i give the correct partition name ,
it says that these drives are not found.what do i do?
can anyone suggest me a method to run matlab 6.1.0 in linux?
     if anybody has any solution, please forward it.
badri.