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by **C G Earnsha** » Tue, 17 Dec 1996 04:00:00

I know this isn't the corrct Linux group to post this to, but it's the
only Linux group that Durham Uni carries, please forgive me.

I've just installed Linux on my machine and have problems with two points
that I can't find an answer to :

1) I can't mount my DOS file system to get files from. I have two hard
drives on my machine, c and D, linux is installed on D and runs no
problem, but when I try nd 'mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt' it complains
that ths file system is not the correct type. Is this something to do with
Win95?

2) How can you change the default fonts under XFree386? I want to try and
get the X windows equivilent of Windows small fonts, ie just a much
smaller font than the standard is. Again I cannot find a solution to this
in my manual.

Any help would be wonderful....

Craig!

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by **Didier D** » Thu, 19 Dec 1996 04:00:00

hello CG

> I know this isn't the corrct Linux group to post this to, but it's the
> only Linux group that Durham Uni carries, please forgive me.

> I've just installed Linux on my machine and have problems with two points
> that I can't find an answer to :

> 1) I can't mount my DOS file system to get files from. I have two hard
> drives on my machine, c and D, linux is installed on D and runs no
> problem, but when I try nd 'mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt' it complains
> that ths file system is not the correct type. Is this something to do with
> Win95?

try to 'cat /proc/filesystems' to see if your kernel support msdos
partitions.

Quote:> 2) How can you change the default fonts under XFree386? I want to try and
> get the X windows equivilent of Windows small fonts, ie just a much
> smaller font than the standard is. Again I cannot find a solution to this
> in my manual.

Yes it is possible! I managed it but do-not remember how I managed it.
(I working with Ms stuff at work)
but you can try to find it at:
http://web7.mit.edu/ASC/Documentation/Unix/Fvwm/main.html

Quote:
> Any help would be wonderful....

> Craig!

> --
> I love the Internet - I am no longer dependent on family, friends and
> co-workers - I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!
> --

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Hope it will help!

McG

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by **Richard Slob** » Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:00:00

>> 1) I can't mount my DOS file system to get files from. I have two hard
>> drives on my machine, c and D, linux is installed on D and runs no
>> problem, but when I try nd 'mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt' it complains
>> that ths file system is not the correct type. Is this something to do with
>> Win95?

>try to 'cat /proc/filesystems' to see if your kernel support msdos
>partitions.

Considering the mention of Win95, another possibility is that the "DOS
file system" in question is actually FAT32 rather than (V)FAT.

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