Re: umsdos under 2.6

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Lefebvre
On 12/12/05, Martin Lefebvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well if -t vfat gives you the same error, you can try redoing the > filesystem on the USB drive. I've seen that happen when the device is > not properly unmounted, or if something bad happened to it (mine was > dropped... still works, but

Re: umsdos under 2.6

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Lefebvre
On 12/12/05, Iñaki Silanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Martin. I mention in my post that I have tried "-t msdos" and it > doesn't work. "-t vfat" gives the very same error: > > Bart:~# mount /dev/autousb /mnt/usb/ -t msdos > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/autous

Re: umsdos under 2.6

2005-12-12 Thread Iñaki Silanes
Martin Lefebvre wrote: > On 12/9/05, Iñaki Silanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a USB pendrive formatted as umsdos (I think), and I just can't >> mount it with my Debian Etch 2.6 kernel machine. >> > > Try vfat... works with my 2 usbdrives Thanks, Martin. I mention in my po

Re: umsdos under 2.6

2005-12-09 Thread Martin Lefebvre
On 12/9/05, Iñaki Silanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a USB pendrive formatted as umsdos (I think), and I just can't mount > it with my Debian Etch 2.6 kernel machine. > Try vfat... works with my 2 usbdrives -- Martin Lefebvre eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: https://sigterm.hom

Re: umsdos and vfat works but no uvfat - any ideas?

2002-06-16 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 20:03, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:36:28PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've been trying to get uvfat working and it says that I just need to > > enable umsdos and vfat (which I have) and they both work fine. > > > > However, when I do

Re: umsdos and vfat works but no uvfat - any ideas?

2002-06-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:36:28PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been trying to get uvfat working and it says that I just need to > enable umsdos and vfat (which I have) and they both work fine. > > However, when I do > > mount -t uvfat /dev/hda11 /mnt > > it tells me that uv

Re: umsdos/loopback with debian

2001-04-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:10:53AM +0100, Saqib Shaikh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi all, > > what i want to do is convert my existing linux partition into an > umsdos or loopback filesystem to send to a friend. i have done the > opposite - converted umsdos to ext2, but could someone tell me ho

Re: UMSDOS as root

1998-08-28 Thread Steve Byrne
I've been trying to run UMSDOS as my root partition for the last week or so. I posted to the debian-user list to see if anyone knew about how to make this work, but I haven't received a reply yet. Debian definitely doesn't support UMSDOS as root out of the box. I can get tantalizingly close to ha

Re: umsdos run on fat32 ?

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 01:33:40PM -0400, R. Chris Ross wrote: > I have recently gotten a laptop at work that I need to run Win95 > and later, likely NT. It would be great to also load Linux in the same > partition. Can Debian be installed using an umsdos file system in a fat32 > partition?

Re: umsdos

1997-12-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
Jason Ish said > I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers, > even though I know it isn't a suggested practice. > > What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I > have a up and running Debian system to make a new kernel and what not. > >

Re: umsdos

1997-12-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 01:27:20PM -0600, Jason Ish wrote: > I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers, > even though I know it isn't a suggested practice. > > What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I > have a up and running Debian sy

Re: umsdos

1997-12-10 Thread emaziuk
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 01:27:20PM -0600, Jason Ish wrote: > I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers, > even though I know it isn't a suggested practice. > > What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I > have a up and running Debian sy

Re: umsdos and df command

1997-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jim Foltz wrote: > Anyway, it uses umsdos. I am using a bastardized version of > /etc/init.d/boot and have prety much left the filesystem checking as it is > by default. The umsdos filesystem (root) is mounted and sync'd ok, but the > df command does not show that /dev/hda1 was

Re: Umsdos support?

1997-02-19 Thread Gertjan Klein
Giuliano Procida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is possible to fool the installation process roughly as follows: > You need a DOS partition, say /dev/hda1, umssync, and perhaps other > things (it's been a while). Replace the boot-floppy kernel with one > that has FAT and UMSDOS compiled in.

Re: UMSDOS partition and debian

1996-12-06 Thread Scott Barker
Rick Macdonald said: > I've had /home and my debian mirror and a few other things on a UMSDOS > filesystem for quite awhile. I just upgraded to 2.0.25 a couple of > weeks ago. Before that I was running 2.0.6. I never noticed any problems > compared to 1.2.13 or whatever it was that I used to run.

Re: UMSDOS partition and debian

1996-12-06 Thread Scott Barker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have gathered that it is possible to run the debian installation > in a dos fat partition. I am hoping that this configuration would > resemble the slakware installation running over the dos fat partition. Do not, repeat DO NOT use UMSDOS filesystems

Re: UMSDOS partition and debian

1996-12-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
Take a look at dilinux ftp.sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/dilinux It's a very good example of what you want. On Fri, 6 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all... > > I have gathered that it is possible to run the debian installation > in a dos fat partitio