john kroll wrote: > I've been doing this same thing for quite awhile now too (transferring files > from windows XP into solaris). Luckily all of the later builds have worked > well opening a media folder which is the USB fat external hard drive > immediately on plug in. Did have trouble with some of the earlier builds and > my chipset though. Anyway my question is : I now have Window XP and a Fat32 > primary partition on my other hard drive How can I get solaris to recognize > the internal FAT partition and utilize it rather than going to the external? > This would speed transfer even more. > > You should just be able to mount it. The format command will tell you the drive's path and you can use that to mount the FAT partition.
For example if format shows you have a device c2d0, you should be able to use mount -f pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0p0 to mount the first partition, assuming that's the FAT partition. Ian
