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I've just reloaded Linux again...



Pausing before the last shore of time, Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:
> 
> > ...and I've lost my instructions for making /windos/c a vfat type.
> > Can anyone help?
> 
> mkdir /windows
> 
> #add this to /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hdaX  /windows	vfat   defaults  0  0
> 
> DO NOT USE A TYPE OF `dos'!!!  It can corrupt your system!
> Note that for hdaX X=the number of the partition your windows partition
> is in.


manually it's
	 mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /windows 

If your partition is 100% full, you should still be able to boot 
with root as read-only.  You can then selective remove stuff.

For migrating to a larger partition/disk, check out the mini HOW-TO
	Hard-Disk-Upgrade
for step by step directions.

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 Kuan Lee
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