An extra one on this:-
If it's a windoze98 partition, it may be FAT32 which requires kernel
2.0.35 or above (but maybe 34 will be OK). I currently have kernel
2.0.32 which supports vfat (long file names) on a FAT16 partition only.
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 25 August 1998 09:00
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: empty directory
>
>
> According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU.
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I linked my /Win98 to my drive C and it shows an empty
> files, is there a way
> > to fix it? Was it a bug or an error on my configuration?
>
> You possably have not mounted the /win98 partition.
>
> How can we say if it is a "configuration issue" when you DONT
> tell us what
> you are doing.
>
> How have you linked it, linked it to what, drive C means very
> little on a
> Linux system. Drive C is /dev/hda in Linux, but that in itself is not
> enough, unless there is only one partition on /dev/hda which i doubt.
>
> The way to go is mount the windows partition in a directory
> under '/' on
> /dev/hda! where ! is the number of the partition.
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 -tvfat /win98 would then be used to "mount"
> the win98
> drive into the /win98 directory, the drive in this case is the first
> partition on /dev/hdb (drive d:) secondary device on the
> primary controller.
>
> To use vfat you possably will need kernel 2.0.34 or higher
> and will need to
> have NLS and friends compiled into the kernel or as modules.
>
>
> >
> >
> > [Jerome Tan]
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> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards Richard.
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