ibi wrote:
> I have a thorny newbie question about CPU's and multiple drives.
>
> 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.
>
> My friend and I are learning Linux together. We both have multiple
> drives and Windows loaded, but different configurations and this is
> where the thorny part begins. We both want to access Windows files, but
> can't seem to find the /mnt point.
>
> 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?"
>
> 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>
/dev/hda1 is windows primary, 2 is the extended partition containing the
others
>
> 2)hdb 1<5,6> (backup files)
> 3)hdc Unknown
>
> I think 1) is the A:, C: plus the <paritions including EXT2>.
> Just the drive containing C: and the extended partition with its logical
> drives
>
> I think line 2) is the secondary drive with it's two partitions
>
Right
> And, I hope 3) is the MO drive.
>
RIght again
>
> 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?
>
Best case would be likely this (as entries in /etc/fstab):
/dev/hda1 /home/username/Desktop/windozeC vfat noexec,user,rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /home/username/Desktop/windozeD vfat noexec,user,rw 0 0
...
/dev/hdb5 /home/username/Desktop/mybackup1 vfat noexec,user,rw 0 0
...
and so on. RESIST the temptation to put a "conv=" in the options. They
seem to be bad news, and if you do, then expect to spend a lot of time
deleting .directory files from windows partitions and dealing with frozen
kfm windows.
If I understood your question correctly, and if you create these desktop
folders in the user space, then the user has rw access to windows files as
you intended and there is no need to traverse the directory tree seeking
the mount points since they are on the user desktop. When playing root,
you know they are at /home/username/Desktop/...
Civileme
>
> Thanks for the help and I apologize for the lengthy message.
>
> Pj
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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