Mark -
If I understand your question, you want to run Linux on your boot hard
drive, yet access a Windows "file system" from another hard drive....
conceptually, this is what will be required...
1. the other device can be "seen" by Linux
2. the device is mounted as a file system (I believe this is the proper
phrasing...)
3. the file system is in a format that will be understood by the Linux
operating system
point 1 will likely be handled ok by the BIOS... you can check the "devices"
file once you boot Linux (don't remember the file name, but I know the rest
of the list can provide this for you...)
point 2 - I am not sure... if a FAT16, or FAT32, or NTFS format volume can
be mounted by Linux....again, the list can help
point 3 - what Linux program/utility/or whatever will interpret the Windows
format files? not sure, believe they exist, again, the real experts on the
list can help...
just some guidance on what the details might be...Tom, Larry, et al?
rbh
Linux User 193554
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 6:11 AM
Subject: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
> Is it relatively straight forward to use a removable hard drive that is
DOS
> formatted in Linux. What I have are two drives, on with Linux and one
with
> Windows. When I want to use windows I pull out the Linux drive and put in
> the Windows drive. This makes it easy for me to take my windows drive to
> work to pull crap off of it and etc...
>
> What I would like to do is put in another bay so that while in Linux I can
> get to my windows drive. But I i'm not sure how I would mount the drive
or
> if there would be any contention during times when the drive was not in
the
> bay.
>
> Is this making any sense?
>
