Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

1999-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, William R Pentney wrote: > Thanks to those who answered my question about MS-DOS partitions. My > question now is this: I can split my MS-DOS partition a second time to get > Debian some more space. What would be the best way to add this partition? > Should I just have it moun

Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

1999-03-28 Thread William R Pentney
Thanks to those who answered my question about MS-DOS partitions. My question now is this: I can split my MS-DOS partition a second time to get Debian some more space. What would be the best way to add this partition? Should I just have it mount it on bootup? - thanks, Bill

Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

1999-03-28 Thread Jason Willoughby
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > Because only root can write to an MSDOS partition and you do not want to > be root doing normal things. In other words, you should only be root when > you have to do some administrative task that requires root and then you go > back to being a user again

Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

1999-03-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, William R Pentney wrote: > > (I'm new to this mailing list, so if I am sending this message to the > wrong place, please accept my apologies.) > > I have installed Debian 2.0 alongisde Windows 95 by splitting the Windows > partition, and it was relatively headache free (phe