hbquikcomjamesl
February 9th, 2010, 07:09 AM
I have a DOS/Linux dual-boot system. After recently replacing the original motherboard (an Elitegroup P6VEM3, of all things!) with a salvaged Dell D300 motherboard, I'm preparing to replace the Red Hat 8 currently installed with a Ubuntu live CD that I've had for some time (but that wouldn't work at all on the old motherboard, for some reason)
I have a question about the "partitioner" stage of the installer: I don't know what to do with my 5 DOS volumes.
My hard drive is partitioned as follows (from the partitioner's report when I select manual mode; annotations in parentheses):
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 fat16 57MB 33MB (C:, "DOS")
/dev/sda5 fat16 106MB 33MB (D:, "STUFF")
/dev/sda6 fat16 633MB 121MB (E:, "APPLICATION")
/dev/sda7 fat16 633MB 41MB (F:, "TOOLS")
/dev/sda8 fat16 419MB 33MB (G:, "GAMES")
/dev/sda9 ext3 205MB 15MB (/boot)
/dev/sda3 ext3 154224MB 4600MB (/)
/dev/sda4 swap 3758MB 0MB
Running the live CD, all 5 DOS volumes are mountable by name, under the
"places/removable media" menu, as are both my 1.44M and 360k (yes, 360k) floppy drives.
I'm not sure if saw my 250M Zip drive under the live CD; it reports as "hdb4" under Red Hat 8.
The Partitioner only offers "DOS" and "WINDOWS" as mountpoints for FAT16 volumes;
I have, as you can see, 5 DOS volumes and no *******.
So what do I tell the partitioner about the other DOS volumes?
And do I keep the existing GRUB, or install a new one, and if the latter, how do I tell it that
sda1 is the bootable DOS volume?
Ideally, I'd like Linux to mount C and E as read-only, since one is my DOS, and the other
is where my "family jewels" DOS apps and data live.
Under RH8, I was able (despite the fact that it hasn't been talking to the mouse since
I changed motherboards) to inspect the mtab and fstab files; here is what they report (no
mountpoints for the DOS volumes; I'd had to reinstall RH8 after replacing the hard drive,
and never got around to adding mountpoints for them!):
mtab in RH8:
/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda9 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
fstab in RH8:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy1 auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
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James H. H. Lampert
I have a question about the "partitioner" stage of the installer: I don't know what to do with my 5 DOS volumes.
My hard drive is partitioned as follows (from the partitioner's report when I select manual mode; annotations in parentheses):
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 fat16 57MB 33MB (C:, "DOS")
/dev/sda5 fat16 106MB 33MB (D:, "STUFF")
/dev/sda6 fat16 633MB 121MB (E:, "APPLICATION")
/dev/sda7 fat16 633MB 41MB (F:, "TOOLS")
/dev/sda8 fat16 419MB 33MB (G:, "GAMES")
/dev/sda9 ext3 205MB 15MB (/boot)
/dev/sda3 ext3 154224MB 4600MB (/)
/dev/sda4 swap 3758MB 0MB
Running the live CD, all 5 DOS volumes are mountable by name, under the
"places/removable media" menu, as are both my 1.44M and 360k (yes, 360k) floppy drives.
I'm not sure if saw my 250M Zip drive under the live CD; it reports as "hdb4" under Red Hat 8.
The Partitioner only offers "DOS" and "WINDOWS" as mountpoints for FAT16 volumes;
I have, as you can see, 5 DOS volumes and no *******.
So what do I tell the partitioner about the other DOS volumes?
And do I keep the existing GRUB, or install a new one, and if the latter, how do I tell it that
sda1 is the bootable DOS volume?
Ideally, I'd like Linux to mount C and E as read-only, since one is my DOS, and the other
is where my "family jewels" DOS apps and data live.
Under RH8, I was able (despite the fact that it hasn't been talking to the mouse since
I changed motherboards) to inspect the mtab and fstab files; here is what they report (no
mountpoints for the DOS volumes; I'd had to reinstall RH8 after replacing the hard drive,
and never got around to adding mountpoints for them!):
mtab in RH8:
/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda9 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
fstab in RH8:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy1 auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
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James H. H. Lampert