I named my FAT partition as /mnt/Dos. You might have to repartion all but your windows drive and reinstall linux. I use this /mnt/Dos partition as my go between with linux and Windoze98. SA >From: Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions >Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:50:18 -0400 > >all I wanted to do was access my windows partition from linux and I've >created tons of errors. I was reading up on it and someone it said that >there is no support for FAT32 in linux, only FAT. this was ok, I'd just >set up a 2gig FAT partition to be an intermediate partition, right? I >created the partition and then when I tried to boot into linux BAM >error. It said VHS panic root partition \dev\hda5 found hda1 ... <hda5 >hda6 hda7> and locked up. ok I thought this might happen because it >would shift the partitions up. I then figured out from the boot disk I >created when making mandrake I could type linux boot=/dev/hda6 ro (ok >maybe some faqs helped out :) ). so this got me back into linux I >thought I could just mount my hda5 partition, start emulating windoze >apps, and all would be well. well that wasn't the case. I got into linux >but I wasn't greeted by that nice gradiant screen with KDE or gnome >selection, only that ASCII penguin and the bash prompt. I logged in and >remembered that "startx" was used to get into KDE. welp I went into KDE >as root and tried to mount my hda5. I used that exploring thing, went >into the /dev directory and clicked on hda5. now KDE locked up. great. I >used ctrl+alt+backspace to kill it. now I was back at the prompt. I >typed mount /dev/hda5 but it didn't find it in etc/bin and some other >dir even though I was in /. could anything else possible go wrong? yup. >I thought GNOME might give me more luck in getting into my windows >partition, but since that gradiant screen went away after I created my >windows FAT partition I didn't know how to start it. I went into the >gnome directory and found a readme. I was under the impression VI was >like edit in DOS. ok I typed VI readme. It displayed ~'s down the >screen, and locked up my keyboard! I pressed escape q! because I read >somewhere that q! closes it but that didn't work. I couldn't do anything >so I pressed ctrl+alt+del. this began to restart my comp, but then it >couldn't unmount the root partition! well I just booted back to windows >to write this message and I have a feeling my that linux partition's >file system has been damaged. alright now I have a few questions. >1) how do I get that gradiant login screen when I boot up back so I can >select gnome? >2) how do I access my windows FAT partition (hda5) I created to be the >intermediate partition between my FAT32 partition and linux? mount >doesn't work. >3) I very much hate booting linux from a floppy, how do I get loadlin to >work? I created a dir called linux with loadlin, vmlinuz, >initsomething.gz and a bat with loadlin c:\linux\loadlin >c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6/ ro in it, rebooted into DOS mode from >win, and ran the bat. well I got some weird error. > >do you guys recommend I reinstall linux? I just have the fresh installed >mandrake on my linux partition. well reinstalling would let me create a >bootdisk that has /dev/hda6 as root on it, and fix q 1, but I still need >to figure out how to access my windows FAT partition and get loadlin to >work. >I really hope all this trouble I'm going through to get linux set up >pays off in linux being worth it. I haven't really been able to play >around since I'm getting so many dang errors and problems.. >well, as always, thanks in advance for any help and info. > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
