At 09:49 AM 5/18/99 +0530, you wrote:
>On Mon, 17 May 1999, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
>>At 05:24 PM 17/05/99 -0500, Aditya wrote:
>>>Hi all
>>...
>>>> Can anybody tell me how to access my linux partition from DOS ?
>>> help is always a million...
>>
>>Surely, Mr. Aditya, you must be joking ...
>>
>>Sameer.
>Even if you are joking Mr Aditya, here's *some* help:
>Consider that your DOS/Win95 partition is on device hdb or hdc etc
>You can mount it under Linux by the following command:
># mount /dev/hdb1 /dos
>This assumes that hdb1 is the dos partition and hdb is the name of the
device.
>/dos is a directory created under root to mount the partition.
>Of course, there might be other (simpler?) ways of accessing dos partitiions
>from Linux but for the time being...
>
I think he's asking for the other way round, how to read linux from dos.
try the lread utility, it was on one of the pcworld cd's or look for it on
metalab.
shahrukh
