On Sun, 28 May 2000, Anandvivakanan Baljit wrote:
> Hi
> Windows is on another physical hard-drive. I did make this hard drive a
> slave. Linux detect it as a new hard-drive but when I try to mount
> it -->mount /dev/hdb /mnt/temp -t vfat .I got an error stating wrong file
> type or file system too large. Something like that . Booth hard-drive are
> the same size. Also I would like to know that when you mount, is the data
> transferred to the location or is it just the address of where the data is
> on the other device?
> Bye.
>
You have to mount the Windows partition on the drive, not the hole drive.
Try mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp -t vfat (I am guessing that Windows is
installed on the first primary partation.) You only mount the hole drive
when you are mounting CD ROMs, floppys, and other devices that have the
hole device as a file system. Hard drives are normaly partationed, so you
have to tell mount what partation you want.
When you mount a partation, nothing is transfered from one drive to the
other. What happens is that the drive that is mounted is accessed through
the mount point. So instead of prefixing a command or file name with
something like D:\<some path>, you use /mnt/tmp/<some path>. It can be a
bit confusing at first, but as you use it, you will discover the
advantages of it, I am sure.
One thing to be aware of - if you want to duel boot the system with
Windows on the second drive, you have to do some extra work in
/etc/lilo.conf, because Windows will on boot off the first hard drive.
On another note, if your Windows system is normaly on a different machine
then your linux system, there are ways to connect them together and
transfere files without having to use a floppy to move data. Depending on
your budget, you can use network cards, a null modem cable, or parrelle
cable and PPIP. Something to think about for the future.
Mikkel
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