Amit Bhargava proclaimed:
> How do i access the windows 95 partition. it is hda1 in my machine
The paritions that get mounted during a boot up are listed in the
/etc/fstab file. If you want /dev/hda1 to be automatically mounted as /win
on your machine when you boot up add the following line (if it is not
already there) to your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda1 /win vfat defaults 0 1
Remember that your kernel should have vfat support compiled into it. To
find out the filesystems that your kernel supports do the following:
$ cat /proc/filesystems
> and i
> have mounted it /win but during booting it says that that verification for
> /win mount failed as it does not exists
You have given insufficient information. Please give us the *exact error
message* that you get. As "what" does not exist? Also, does the directory
/win exist? It has to.
> but when I run the Disk Druid it
> shows the /win mounting. How do i access the partition.
Disk Druid will not mount partitions.
> Can I also access all files that are avaiable on that particular mount. As
> my modem is not configured so far for Linux so I have downloaded quite a few
> utitlies for Linux and so qould like to install those packages on Linux by
> accessing the partition.
Once you mount a windows parititon you can access it like any other part of
your file system.
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