[ug-bosug] Re: Re: Problem with Solaris Express Community Release b50

[Moinak Ghosh]

Anil Gulecha wrote:
>
>
> On 1/22/07, *Moinak Ghosh* <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com 
> <mailto:Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com>> wrote:
>
>     Anand Bheemarajaiah wrote:
>     > It does provide you with the shell option. But once you reboot
>     it takes you back to the same insallation screen again. Anyway i
>     reinstalled Solaris now and as shovik said skipped these while
>     installing.
>     >
>     > But now i have a new problem. This is regarding mounting drives.
>     >
>     > In linux i used to use the command "fdisk -l"
>     >
>     > It used to list all the drives and i just had to run the mount
>     command next.
>     >
>     > But in solaris when i try with the "format" command it says
>     there are 2 hard disks - c0d0 and c0d1.
>     >
>     > when i select the secondary hard disk ( c0d1 ) it just says that
>     the type of disk is not known and doesn't give me any info about
>     the partitions in that disk.
>     >
>
>        format will not show you partitions, it will only show slices
>     inside
>     the Solaris
>        partition, if there is one.
>
>        You can use
>
>        fdisk /dev/rdsk/c1d0p0  to see the partitions. However that
>     will only
>     show primary partitions.
>        My utility you downloaded below will show all the partitions.
>
>     > So, how do i mount the fat32 partitions in that disk. I got the
>     packages monaik has made in belenix site which is used to mount
>     drives but to transfer those packages i need to mount atleast a
>     floppy but if i try the command,
>     >
>     > mount -F pcfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>     >
>     > it just says that either fd0 is already mounted or floppy is
>     busy. I need to find some decent howTo's or tutorials telling me
>     the naming conventions etc and which commands to be used to do
>     that and stuff.
>     >
>
>        Your floppy should be automatically mounted upon insertion via
>     vold.
>
>
> Floppy is not automatically mounted (there is no mechanism for it to 
> communicate with the OS that something has been inserted.)
>
> Anand : After inserting your floppy, run 'vold'. That should search 
> for and mount the floppy.

   RightO, it's not automatic. You'd actually need to run "volcheck". 
"vold" is the daemon
   that keeps running in the background.

   However all that changes from B52 onwards after HAL. I am not sure 
whether "volcheck"
   still exists after HAL. Need to grovel the manpages.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> Regards
> Anil
>
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