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- From: probreak@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Mounting DOS filesystem from Linux
- Message-ID: <1drd24INNm8u@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 04:40:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: kitty.1drd24INNm8u
- References: <1992Nov10.154425.19194@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- lagrue.Wgc-e@rx.xerox.com (John Lagrue) writes:
-
- >I am posting this for a friend who does not have Usenet access.
- >Please reply directly to him. Thank you.
-
- >--------------------------------------------------------------
- >I am running Linux from a 1.44 Mbyte floppy drive (A:). I want to be
- >able to read files from the (DOS) hard drive.
-
- >I have tried
-
- > mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dos
-
- >both with and without a '/dos' directory created within the Linux filesystem
- >I keep getting the error
- > segmentation error (core dumped)
-
-
- >Can anyone help me?????
- >Andy.
-
- >Email: Andrew_Clark.Sbd-e@rx.xerox.com
-
- Sounds as if you have the older version of mount. Try getting the new source
- from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin
-
- James
-