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  From: Adam Hawes <adam.hawes@ace.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au, "Big Fellow <bigfellow@cyberdude.com>
  Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:29:17 +1030

Re: Mounting Dos Partitions

>1. Now, this is the exact same fstab that I had before, but my CD ROM won't
>let me access it's directories. I can cd to /mnt/cdrom, but an ls will
>return nothing... When I try to mount it, I get a message that it is already
>mounted. What's this all about?

You probably have not set rwx permissions for your user to access
the CDROM directory. Try something like 'chmod uog=rx /mnt/cdrom'
as root to make it readable and allow execution of program on the
directory (mount point).

>2. To mount a second floppy, do I just add a line /dev/fd1/ mnt/floopy2 ext2
>defaults, noauto 0 0 ?

You got it :-)

>3. When it boots up, I get an error after every mounting command for proc
>and the dos partitions called:
>"Unable to load NLS charset cp 437(nls_cp437)" I have no problem accessing
>the dos partitions...

You have probably not compiled the various character set modules for
your kernel. When you recompile, they are in the filesystem set of
options, i believe - set them all to modules and the error should go
away :-)

>4. What is /proc ?

A pseudo filesystem where the kernel puts some very important and
interesting information about the system. It isn't actually a 
space on your disk... it is virtual, but you can find out all sorts
of really interesting/helpful information from poking around in there.

>5. How do I get write access to Dos Partitions?

If you use Linuxconf, you can set the user who gets read/write
access to DOS partitions. I think that you can also set the
permissions of the mount point to allow all users, or groups,
or whatever read/write access. Similar to the CDROM example
above, but use rwx instead of rx

>6. How do I tell Dr. DOS about the other drives?

If you mean Linux drives, I don't think that you can do that.

>Sorry, for so many questions, but I am getting a little frustrated with
>this.... just little things that take ages to solve.....

No need to appoligise :-)

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