Thanks for the info, Frank.
The second problem I ran into was mounting the partition in Solaris. I
think this is because I just created one primary partition on the
fat32 drive, but I should have created a logical partition within
that. Does that sound right? I followed the tips on
Shouldn't be necessary. PCFS can mount primary partitions, logical
partitions and even unpartitioned media (provided for the latter exists
a device, which on a SPARC may sometimes be an issue).
Are you using Solaris/x86 ? If so, try the ...p[1-4] devices as well as
...p0:[c-z] and/or ...p0:<number> - the biggest problem with PCFS is
that figuring out which "device" (HAH; don't get me started ...)
actually must be mounted :(
Yes, I am using Solaris/x86. I may have been getting the mount command
wrong and unfortunately I don't have a way to go back and check what I
typed because I was booting an OpenSolaris live CD which doesn't save my
command history. It wasn't clear to me what I should put after the ':'
when all I had was just a primary partition. If I get a chance, I will
try it again.
I did go back and change the disk to have a logical partition within a
primary partition which I got to work. The result, using Linux fdisk, was
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1 30401 244195959+ W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Then, in Solaris, I mounted this with
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1d1p0:d /mnt
Thanks,
Haik
http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html#9.10 regarding mounting dos
partitions, but I kept getting an error message saying not a valid FAT
partition.
What device specifiers (the horrid "PCFS drive letter" thingies) did you
use, and to what effect ?
Using Linux, I have no problems mounting and accessing the fat32
partition. I created the partition using cfdisk and "mkdosfs -F 32".
What device name do you use on Linux ?
As said, should work. I'm curious to see the errors. And, if you'd like
to submit us a bug report, I'd need to get the partition table and the
first few sectors of the fat partition; extract those on Linux (the
part. table via dd if=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=128, the first few sectors
of the fat partition via dd if=/dev/hdX[1-15] bs=512 count=128, 'X' ==
the disk you use, [1-15] the number of the partition you mount as FAT on
Linux). With that info, I can try loopback here and investigate what
PCFS does with such a table.
Bye,
FrankH.
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