Re: LINDOWS HELP

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:20:23 +0100

akjeff@gci.net wrote:
> Can anyone refer me to a news group that can help out with LINDOWS. I
> have recently installed it on a 500mhz amd with 196 megs ram and a 5gig
> hard drive. just doing some playing with it.. running a apache web server
> seem to be having trouble locating my second hard drive .

No idea about a lindows specific newsgroup, at least my NGP don't have any.

You have a file called /etc/fstab which has the default values for mounting
devices, this you will need to edit if you want to automount harddrives.

man pages you can read is: mount, umount, fstab
(write in a xterm/console: man <name of function>)

Depeding on how your system is setup with cables/jumpers there are different
"names" your second harddrive can have. For this example we assume you have
your first harddrive as primary-master, your other harddrive is primary-slave
and this leaves your cd-rom as secondary-master

Linux uses device names and you will find your "devices" in /dev, here you
will find many that you don't really have, but thats not so important. for the
primary-master there is /dev/hda, for primary-slave we have /dev/hdb and last
we have /dev/hdc for the secondary-master.

Each partition/slice on your haddrives are numbered from 1 to 99+, but it
don't neccessarilly come in a strict order as 1-4 is reserved to primary
partitions while 5- is for extended partitions.
To get information about what partition numbers a harddrive has, you need to
check it with fdisk, you need to be carefull as this can ruin your harddrive.

---example of fdisk usage---
linux root #fdisk /dev/hdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 239340.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdb: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 239340 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 195 98248+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 196 22021 11000304 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 22022 220435 100000656 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 220436 239340 9528120 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 220436 225396 2500312+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 225397 230357 2500312+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb7 230358 239340 4527400+ 82 Linux swap

Command (m for help): q

linux root #
---end of example---

Now you know the partitions/slices of the second harddrive (of course yours
will be different), say we want to mount the second slice, but first we want
to create a mount directory

linux root # mkdir /mnt/harddrive
linux root # mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/harddrive

This will make the second slice on the primary-slave to be accesseble in
/mnt/harddrive, '-t ext3' tells that we want to mount an ext3 filesystem, this
is something you have to know as the fdisk can't really tell exactly which
filesystem a partition will be using.
You can let the system to try to determin the filesystem, but don't always work

linux root # mount -t auto /dev/hdb2 /mnt/harddrive

or

linux root # mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/harddrive

If you are trying to mount microsoft windows filesystems, they are called vfat
or ntfs, the later one isn't always supported in kernels, as it's not really
100% tested, but it's not anymore a "beta" driver. But as Lindows is supposed
to be as close to microsoft windows as possible, I guess it does support ntfs
by default.

  //Aho

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