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  From: Andrew Hill <list@fornax.net>
  To  : Subba Rao <subb3@attglobal.net>
  Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:59:16 +1030

Re: Large HD and VMWare's raw partitions

Subba Rao wrote:
> then the filesystem is mounted as a ext2 filesystems. When I try to mount them
> as msdos filesystems,
> 
>         mount -t msdos /dev/hdc5 /msdos
> 
> then the following message appears:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc5,
>        or too many mounted file systems

I may be wrong here, but wouldn't this be expected if there is no
filesystem on these partitions yet? Have these partitions been
formatted?

> The goal is to create a raw partition for VMWare on the /dev/hdc5 partition and
> install NT over it rely on M$ systems.

In this case, you do not want to mount these partition(s) anyway. If
Linux has the device(s) mounted, VMWare will not be able to use it
(them) as a raw partition.

In order to set the partition(s) up under VMWare, simply install VMWare
under Linux, tell it where the raw partition(s) is (are), and then start
VMWare up. It will prompt you for your (Windows NT) installation media,
which should allow you to format the (VMWare raw disk) drive(s) as
appropriate.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew Hill

"Right now, I'd happily snort gunk from the sink if it would take
my brain somewhere away from here...." - JB

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