Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:42:08 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
>
> > Hi All, 'specially Steve;
>
> > My Linux X problems were fixed by installing the SVGA rpm.
> > This turned out to be extremely easy. I elected to use a slightly
> > modified form of the instructions supplied by Steve, so this might
> > be of some use to someone.
>
> Great!
> Happy to hear that you got it up-and-running.
>
> > In Midnight Commander I went to /mnt/CDROM (which I had automounted
> > in fstab)
>
> BTW,
>
> For any "DOS addicts" (such as myself), who might like to setup the Linux
> "mount points" to duplicate your DOS setup.
>
> First, I created a /dos directory on the Linux drive.
> And then subdirectories under /dos
> a: (3-1/2" 1.44mb)
> b: (5-1/4" 1.2mb)
> c: |---dos HDD
> d: |
> e: |
> f: |
> g: |
> h: |
> i: |
> j: |
> k: |---drives
> q: (cd1)
> r: (cd2)
>
> Next, I edited my fstab file and rebooted after saving the changes.
>
> ---- /etc/fstab -----
> #
> /dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> #
> #---dos drives---
> /dev/fd0 /dos/a: msdos 0 0
> /dev/fd1 /dos/b: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /dos/c: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /dos/d: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /dos/e: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /dos/f: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /dos/g: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda9 /dos/h: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda10 /dos/i: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda11 /dos/j: msdos 0 0
> /dev/hda12 /dos/k: msdos 0 0
> #
> #cd1
> /dev/hdc /dos/q: iso9660 ro 0 0
> #
> #cd2
> /dev/hdd /dos/r: iso9660 ro 0 0
> #
> _____________________
>
> Now when booted to Linux, I can access all drives with the same
> drive letters as when in booted to DOS.
That's very useful info, Glenn. We need to broadcast all this kind of
detail for the Linux newbies and newbies-to-come.
As I expected my CDROM would contain Linux stuff, mine is under /mnt.
I have: /mnt/fd0
/mnt/DOS
/mnt/CDROM
And /etc/fstab has:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 autofs 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS msdos defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/CDROM ISO9660 ro 0 0
Just to show there are different strokes possible for us different folks.
Of course I have no idea if the above makes sense, but it seems to work.<g>
It's also important to comment that some Linuxii are very particular about
the grammer in fstab. The spacing between elements is sometimes important,
as is the line terminator.
For Linux I *think* it should be LF only, instead of CR,LF.
Folks that are lucky enough to have man pages available will benefit from
man fstab and man mount. Those of us with Dragon, Pygmy or Basic Linux will
just have to ask questions. <G>
- Clarence Verge
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