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Hi,

I'm attempting to mount a win95 partition under linux with the
hope of using wine, I have included the partition info below,
The stange thing was that I am able to mount my MO drive
that was formatted using win95 with no problems, but
I am unable to mount the hard drive partition (as it appears
to be 'unknown').

Have you any ideas on how I can mount this drive without
harming it, so that I maybe able to install wine ?

I use slackware 3.3 and 3.4 too.

Many thanks

Matt

PROMPT>:~# mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type vfat (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /data type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)

<PROMPT>:~# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
       or too many mounted file systems

<PROMPT>:~# fdisk
Using /dev/hda as default device!
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1            1        1      254  1024096+   b  Unknown
/dev/hda2          255      255      262    32256   83  Linux native
/dev/hda3   *      524      524      524     4032    a  OS/2 Boot
Manager
/dev/hda4          263      263      523  1052352    5  Extended
/dev/hda5          263      263      277    60448+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6          278      278      455   717664+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda7          456      456      523   274144+  83  Linux native
Command (m for help): q

Hi Matt,

I get away with vfat all the time. But I realize that doesn't help you at
all.

Here is an idea.  When I mount vfat partitions, I am careful to make
sure they are FAT16 and not FAT32 (I try to stay away from FAT32, unless
I am forced to use it, due to some bugs).  As far as your OS is concerned,
FAT16 and FAT32 are disperate file systems.  Check your disk in Windows 95
to see if it is FAT32:

   My computer
      right click on the drive
          select "properties" from the menu

You may want to reformat it to FAT 16 or try another post to see if anyone
knows how to
mount FAT32.  (It might be a bit tricky to get it to go back to FAT16; I
sometimes
use DOS' format command and the partition automatically works with vfat.)

Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
--Tony

Note: If using an automatic reply, remove the "I-HATE-SPAM." from my address

I'll reiterate for the last time (until tomorrow, that is):  Linux
works with FAT32, and works well.  LILO will boot FAT32 with no
modifications over a FAT16 boot.  Linux will read FAT32 with a
developmental kernel or a kernel patch.  Even NT5 will probably read
FAT32 before 1999 (sorry, had to throw that one in.)  If you have a
partition over a Gig or so, you can reap the benefits of a slightly
less stupid filesystem design by making it FAT32 instead of FAT16.
---
Roy Stogner

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Tony,

Cheers for replying, your ideas are very helpful..

I would like to use wine (have you got it working).
I think I have to mount my windows partition, to pull the
windows files off, ie win.exe and word.exe etc..
but mounting is impossible or very hard.

Partition seems to be known as 'unknown' by linux.

I attempted to install windows on my MO drive (which
Linux can see fine). but good old Bill Gates makes
the install impossible to install under any thing else
than the hard disk drive. This has to be C:\ I think
another reason is that my MO drive although sits in the
CD drive bay is not bootable from.

I attempted using fdisk under linux to show a type 6
fat16 >=32 but even that gave the same reply unknown
and bad bits etc. (so I'll have to install windows
now anyway.

but vfat is great for mounting and transfering info
via the MO drive to and from win95 <-> Linux.

But how can I install wine with out accessing the
win95 partition other than drive C: any ideas ?

You mentioned

Quote:> mount FAT32.  (It might be a bit tricky to get it to go back to FAT16;
> I sometimes use DOS' format command and the partition automatically works
> with vfat.)

Many thanks

Matt

Brion,

Quote:> /dev/hda1            1        1      254  1024096+   b  Unknown
> Your Windows 95 partition is using FAT32 - you can tell by the partition ID
> of b. Get the FAT32 kernel patch at
> http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html

Does the latest version of slackware come with
this (3.4) ?

Does the latest version of wine come with this too
any tips for this would be great too ?

When I compile this do I need to re-compile the kernel
too or just include this when building wine ?

Could I compile this independently ?

Oh yes any helpful tips (I'm a bit of a newbe to this) ?

Many thanks

Matt

[posted & mailed]

HTH,

--
James Juran

Quote:>Does the latest version of wine come with this too
>any tips for this would be great too ?

Quote:>When I compile this do I need to re-compile the kernel
>too or just include this when building wine ?

Quote:>Could I compile this independently ?

jue
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Jrgen Exner; jurgenex AT microsoft.com
Sorry for this anti-spam inconvenience

To All,

Wow this thread is getting big.

I've had a look at the page where the patch is on but being new at
this what patch would I need (name please), I run slackware 3.3
and 3.4 as I mentioned with the basic kernel 2.0.31.

The kernel How-To is helpful although when I compliled
the (the one for 2.0.31 (a bit of a hit and miss)) I managed
to get a few .reg (this is my first time of comp'ing a new
kernel (I answered every thing as 'Yes' and got the error code 1 as
on installation of Linux I installed everything).

Are there any misc tips you could give me please.

Many thanks

Matt

How can I tell if my version of Red Hat 5.0 has FAT32 support? Thanks.
Please Email response too.