Mounting DOS partitions

[sharanbasappa]

I have installed linux 7.2 and windows 2000 on my pc.
Currently when i need to transfer data from linux to dos (or vice-versa) i just write data to floppy and boot in dos and copy from floppy.

I wanted to know if I could directly mount my windows disks when I have booted in linux. This was I dont have to keep rebooting when I need something present under DOS partitions. To some extent I know that is possible but wanted to be safe since my DOS partition has lot of valuable data.

Please let me know you opinion...

[Rick]

Yes it can be done safely

You can setup a short cut to the dos partition or the folder you want to mount

You can also have it in the Automount area by doing a little edit work

Sorry I don’t recall the file to edit by name at the moment will have to look at my Linux box to find it

Unless your version of linux doesn't support NTFS and that is what you are using for the 2K partition

[Rick]

Here is an easy way to add dos mount points

Using edit open \proc\self\mounts

I added the following to get fat 16 and fat 32 partitions included in the mount menu

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat rw 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/win_e vfat rw 0 0