In article <1992Aug9.203814.9805@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> rahayden@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Silicon Avatar) writes:
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> 1)  What is the proper way to "mount" a MS-DOS drive?  I have Linux on
> hdb2 and wanted to mount hda1.  I used the following (which was sent
> to me so i assumed it worked for somebody) command:
> 
>       mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt

That should work, except if

  - your mount is broken in some strange way (unlikely)
  - your mount is very old (unlikely)
  - /mnt doesn't exist (-> mkdir /mnt)
  - /mnt exists, but is in use. You can either try to figure out what is
    using /mnt or you create a new directory and try again.
  - /dev/hda1 is inaccessible or already mounted
  - there's no MS-DOS file system on /dev/hda1 (very unlikely ;-)
  - you're not root

The following should work in any case:

  - reboot
  - log in as root
  - mkdir /DOS
  - mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /DOS

Note that the MS-DOS FS is still in alpha and that it may exhibit anti-
social behaviour if you push it too hard.

- Werner
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