Hi Sukrit,
I'm already using RHL 6.2 and it's working fine with X (KDE, GNOME as well as
'Another') on a machine with configuration similar to one you mentioned.
I think reinstalling it with little fiddling (may be including the
most-basic/default options) should work.
Regarding accessing DOS partitions from Linux, use the 'mount' command to do so.
Say, for example, create a folder "drive_c" in /mnt, so that it becomes
/mnt/drive_c
Then issue the following command (assuming the desired DOS partition resides on
/dev/hda1, if in doubt check using fdisk command with 'p' subcommand):
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/drive_c
or
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/drive_c vfat
or
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/drive_c umsdos
The first choice leaves the detection of the file-system to Linux, whereas in the
other two options, you explicitly mention the file-system type. The 'man' command
should get you a complete help over this. The device file /dev/hda is for the first
(IDE) hard disk on your system, whereas the /mnt directory holds the devices which can
be mounted. Also refer entries in /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files.
After mounting, your complete DOS partition is available under /mnt/drive_c folder.
To automount your DOS partitions on boot run 'linuxconf' to do so. It shows the
options to provide access to the local hard disks/partitions.
Also to get a performance boost on your hard disk, insert the following line at
the end of your /etc/rc.d/init.local file
hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hda
This turns 32-bit disk I/O and DMA access on. You can also run this command from
the prompt and test the effects before and after using the following command
hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
To see the current settings of your hard disk, just give
hdparm /dev/hda
Hope these pieces of information get to be of some help to you. Wish to hear your
success...
Shantanu.
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