mounting DOS filesystem
Craig Familia
When I try: 'mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/0sC /dosdrive'
I keep getting the error:
mount: /dev/dsk/0sC: No such device or address (error 6).
mkdev dos was done successfully.
Any thoughts on what might be the problem.
Pat Welch
The DOS partition can NOT be a 32K cluster size - the DOS driver in SCO
only supports 16K.
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Craig Familia
be non-FAT32?
Thanks - Craig
"Pat Welch" <pat...@inreach.com> wrote in message
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Pat Welch
>
> Can I change only DOS C: logical disk to FAT16 or must all DOS logical disks
> be non-FAT32?
>
> Thanks - Craig
>
> "Pat Welch" <pat...@inreach.com> wrote in message
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> > Craig Familia wrote:
> > >
> > > When I try: 'mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/0sC /dosdrive'
> > >
> > > I keep getting the error:
> > >
> > > mount: /dev/dsk/0sC: No such device or address (error 6).
> > >
> > > mkdev dos was done successfully.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on what might be the problem.
> >
> > The DOS partition can NOT be a 32K cluster size - the DOS driver in SCO
> > only supports 16K.
The above is my bad - I meant the limitation is 16 vs 32 FAT sizes, not
clusters per se.
And yes, you can leave the C: drive at 16 and have all the other drives,
logical or physical, at 32.
There's an additional limitation of 2GB as the max partition size that
can be mounted - so your C: drive would have to be 2GB or less.
m...@cluedin.com
OSR5.0.6 and Win98 partitions.
Actually, the Win98 "partition" consists of a
large (>2G) 32 FAT C: partition and a smaller 16 FAT D: partition.
I can mount the D: partition with the command:
mount /dev/dsk/0sd /mnt
Note that: ^ is lower case; upper case doesn't work
(altho on another computer with a 16 FAT c: it is: mount /dev/dsk/0sC
/mnt
I set up the drive initially with the Quest Partition Magic --
but then for some reason that didn't work so well for the dual booting
and I use System Commander for that.
Michael S. Weiner
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Craig Familia
I changed DOS C: from FAT32 to FAT16, also changed the default FAT16 size
from 2039.5 MB to 1992.4 MB. Still getting the same message:
When I try: 'mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/0sC /dosdrive'
mount: /dev/dsk/0sC: No such device or address (error 6).
More thoughts? - Thanks Craig
Pat Welch
Delete the old devs and regenerate via mkdev dos.
Does the message change?
Also, on my machine the names are /dev/hd0d (c:) and /dev/hd1d (d:).
Make sure the major.minor numbers map to the same as the dev you're
trying to use.
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Craig Familia
Tried all suggestions, still get exact same error message??? Any other
suggestions - Thanks Craig
Craig Familia
<m...@cluedin.com> wrote in message news:3B1544FA...@cluedin.com...
My configuration is very similar to yours: dual boot Dell Dimension 4100
w/42gb harddrive / OSR5.0.5. and Win98 partitions. My Win98 C: is FAT32 6gb
/ D: FAT16 / E: FAT16 ....
But when I do: 'mount/dev/dsk/0sd /dosdrive'
-get-
mount: invalid fs type </dev/dsk/0sd>
(Note: I also tried changing my Win98 C: to FAT16 < 2G but still couldn't
mount the dos filesystem)
I used to have a Compaq (smaller hard drive) which I configured dual boot
and didn't have any problem w/ mounting the dos filesystem??? Any more
clues? - Thanks Craig