ibi wrote:
> 1- Is Mandrake6.0 okay with AMD K6-3 CPU? The hardware list has K, K6-2
> and Athalon but no mention of the K6-3, which is an upgraded K6-2.
No problem at all, I have one and it works well. It might not be
recognized as a "K6 3D+" in the standard LM 6.0, but it will work
anyway (with the latest stable kernel, 2.2.14, it is properly
recognized).
> John has 3-drives. W95 is on the main drive; LINUX on the 3rd drive, a
> secondary master. /mnt/Hdc1 doesn't work. The file size is read but he
> gets the same error message I do that asks, "Aren't you trying to mount
> a ? partion instead of a ? inside?"
Well if W95 is on the "main" drive (do you mean the first IDE drive
???)
and Linux on hdc, you should go in your /etc/fstab file, you should
find
an entry like this (otherwise add it):
/dev/hda1 /mnt/w95 vfat defaults 0 0
the device should be /dev/hda1 as shown. the mount point can be
anything
you want (I specified /mnt/w95 above as an example) but it _must_
exist
so if it doesn't, create it with mkdir
> My system is a little more complicated. My master drive has multiple W98
> paritions plus L-M at the end of this drive which is recognized as hda9
> and hda11. The second drive is a slave. The MO backup is the Secondary
> Master and is NOT recognized by L-M.
>
> When I watch L-M set up I see the following lines:
> 1)hda 1,2 <5,6,7,8,9,19,11>
> 2)hdb 1<5,6> (backup files)
> 3)hdc Unknown
>
> I think 1) is the A:, C: plus the <paritions including EXT2>.
No. hda contains only _hard disk_ partitions, so A: id not there
(the device is /dev/fd0).
> I think line 2) is the secondary drive with it's two partitions
> And, I hope 3) is the MO drive.
Should be correct.
> What is the correct mount for the two machines? I have FAT 16 and FAT32
> files in W98. Will vfat allow me to access both files type?
Yes, vfat will allow access to both FAT16 and FAT32 file systems.
As to the correct mount, the C: should be device /dev/hda1 and for the
other partitions you have to know the exact geometry of your
partitions,
because linux will number the partitions in order of ascending
cylinder
position in the "extended partition" which is nothing but a container.
(this "extended partition" is /dev/hda2 but you should not access it
directly, you should use one of the "logical" partitions inside
that are listed between < > above).
So the D: is _probably_ /dev/hda5 but possibly not, it all depends
on the actual geometry. As to where to mount it, you just decide
yourself, with the provision that the mount point must pre-exist
as a directory at mount time.
Try linux fdisk (without write) to know more.
--
Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
