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Hi, List !

 ... (Czerno asked :)
>> My second hard disk (hdb) has two data partitions, one primary
which
>> under DOS/Win is seen as "D:", and one logical "E:" inside an
>> extended. Both data part's are type 06, aka "BIG DOS" FAT16, 400
odd
>> megabytes each. Quite standard a scheme I assume.
>>
>> The problem is I can't seem to have BL3 "see" the second DOS
>> (logical) partition at all.
...
>> # mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /WinE
>>
>> yields : Mounting failed : No such file or directory.

Sindi a ecrit : 

> cd /dev
> mknod hdb5 b 3 69

Superb! You've been so constantly helpful I am but abashed.
...

> I asked Steven to include hda-hdd 5 and 6 (if not also 7 and 8).

The naive question comes to mind, why doesn't Linux itself create 
"nodes" as required ? I checked "dmesg", and sure the system detects 
<hdb5> at boot time. Shouldn't it "mknod" accordingly by itself ? 

>> Same with type msdos instead of vfat.
>> Same when varying the number (hdb6 ?) etc...
> 
> You will see that here is not /dev/hdb5 or /dev/hdb6 in BL3.

Yes saw that. There are lots of to me useless /dev/hdax ...

>> /DOS is mounted at init time as type MSDOS. May I "umount" it and
>> re-mount as VFAT without risks ?

Self-answer : umount fails, tells /DOS is in use. I guess this one is
for 
Steven...

>> Finally, are all mounts automatically undone at halt/reboot,

That also...

And to add a new one : 
I have : "mount /dev/sbpcd0 /cdr" in my /etc/rc script; if the CDROM
tray 
is empty at boot time (as it usually will be) then the system retries
3 or 
4 times before abandoning the mount operation. It's a small
annoyance, is 
it possible though to make the "mount" line conditional so that it is
not 
attempted or at least not retried if no CD is in the device ?

Cheers...

-- 
Czerno


      
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