Re: tlug: Started installing RedHat...

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

I was interested to see Demian's comments, since today I had just
installed RedHat over a Debian installation I had been exploring,
since I was getting frustrated.  :-)

On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 05:30:14PM +0900, Craig Oda wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Demian Martos wrote:
> > Still, I cannot mount the latter DOS partition. Suggestions?
> 
> If you are using non-SCSI disks, the DOS partions are probably 
>  /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2.
> 
> You can check this with fdisk.  Make sure you don't write your
> changes with fdisk or you will erase your entire disk.

'fdisk -l' will show you the partitions on /dev/hda and hdb (the first
two IDE drives) and the first SCSI drives... without risk of damage.

(DOS uses partition 1 for the first primary partition, 2 for the
second primary partition, ... up to 4 for the last primary partition,
partition 5 is the "extended" partition and partitions 6 and up are
the "logical" drives within the extended partition.  So if you had
put two DOS partitions on a single IDE drive, they are probably hda1
and hda6 in the Linux world.)

>  As root, mkdir some top level directories like /dos1 /dos2
> 
> These would be actual directories under LInux.
> 
> Mount the file systems with
> 
>   # mount /dev/hda1 /dos1
>   # mount /dev/hda2 /dos2
> 
'mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dos1' (plain DOS) or
'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dos1' (Win95 long filenames)
may be necessary until you've added them to your /etc/fstab to keep
mount from trying to guess the partition type.

> If this works and you want to mount dos every time you boot Linux,
> edit your filesystem table in /etc/fstab.  I can tell you how if
> you need this info.

You can also do it with RedHat's control-panel "File System Configuration"
applet.

> > 1) connect to Internet as soon as possible. (provider matters
> > momentarily solved).
> 
> Use pppd.  Things are probably easier now.  
> I have an _old_ ppp-options file at
> http://www.twics.com/~craig/tlug/linux-ppp-options.txt   

In addition to pppd, I encourage you to look at diald which is a highly
configurable demand-dialer front end to pppd.

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