Dale Mentzer said:
>Speaking of dummies, ;) I tried the customizing instructions after
>running pppsetup (so the config info would be saved) and I kept
>getting an error message when entering:
>mount /dev/hd00 /hd (my C: drive is the first HD)
>Needless to say I was unable to save my changes. I tried as many
>variations as I could think of, but I got error messages that linux
>was unable to find /dev/hd?? /hd or whatever other variation I
>tried. What gives?
Dale - just a thought, but does the directory /hd exist? This isn't obvious,
but with mount, you are pointing a device at a named directory (in this
case /hd) so use mkdir /hd first to create it.
Second , the syntax is mount -t filesystemtype device dirname
where device is /dev/hda0 , dirname is /hd and filesystem type is from
this list (not exhaustive):
msdos (FAT16), vfat (FAT32), ext2 (standard linux filesystem) or umsdos
Specifying the file system type can help clarify just what it is you're
about to do. Another option (before the 't') is 'r' - specifies
read-only, if you want to minimise any risk of overwriting data on your
DOS drives.(syntax is mount -rt .....)
If you're getting stuck I can recommend the O'Reilly book "Linux in a
nutshell" without reservation - covers all common commands from basic
user to sysadmin in great detail. Cost about 16 GBP / 25 US$.
Good luck.
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