Re: access HDD

[Tony Nugent]

On Mon Aug 24 1998, Norbert Bottlaender-Prier wrote:

> you can mount your Win95 partitions using the "-t vfat" option (this is
> for the FAT16, I don't know the FAT32 option, and I think the latter
> only works with kernel 2.0.35<)

vfat is used for both FAT16 and (in the 2.0.35 kernel) FAT32.

> so, if you have the win95 FAT16-file system, do
> "mount /dev/<win95_partition> -t vfat /mnt/<win95directory_under_linux>"
> and be happy...

why would anyone be (truely) happy doing that?  :-(*)