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[russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>]

Sheldon,
 Try this command to see how your partitions are "seen" by the kernel
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dmesg | grep -i hd
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one of the responses on my computer is:
hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5>
to mount my extended partition I have to use
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> I have been using DOS and Windows9x for years, and want to try Linux.
>
> On Wednesday I got a computer to do that:
> 300 MHz AMD K6-2
> FIC VA-503+ PCB 1.X
> 64 Mb
> HITACHI CDR-7730
> 3.5" Floppy disk drive (3.5")
> 3.23 GB HD
> Matrox MGA Mystique
> Gameport
> Sound Blaster 16/AWE-32 compatible card
> U.S. Robotics 56K int modem
> 3Com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100Mb TX Ethernet NIC (3C905B-TX)
>
> I have BasicLinux (baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org) which loads from DOS into
> ramdisk. It works, but I am so un-learned that I can't mount any of the
> logical drives from my second HD (it has no primary partitions, just E:,
> F:, and G in an extended partition)
> And the NIC can't be found by the  netsetup  command.
>
> I was wondering whether Gnoppix can be installed to a hard drive.
> The "new" computer has Win98SE on it.
>
> (I think Basic Linux can be installed to a hard drive?)
>
> As I understand it, if I have a friend download
> ftp://source.rfc822.org/pub/local/gnoppix/gnoppix-0.5.5-2.iso
> and burn it to a CD-R, I can boot Gnoppix from the CD-R?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sheldon Isaac
>
>
>
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