Trouble browsing Fat32 drive

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: Trouble browsing Fat32 drive
started by: Waxy

Posted by Waxy on May 13 2006,01:22

Alright, so in /mnt i have:
/auto
/cdrom
/floppy
/hd
/hda
/hdb
/test

when i try to Mount hd it tells me:
"Mount: /dev/hda already mounted or /mnt/hda busy"
"Mount: according to mtab, /mnt/hda mounted on /KNOPPIX"
"Mount: can't find /mnt/hd in /ect/fstab or /ect/mtab"

when i try to Mount hda it tells me:
"Mount: /dev/hda already mounted or /mnt/hda busy"
"Mount: according to mtab, /mnt/hda mounted on /KNOPPIX"

when i try to mount hdb it tells me:
"Mount: /dev/hdb already mounted or /mnt/hdb busy"
"Mount: according to mtab, /mnt/hdb mounted on /KNOPPIX"

so how do i view my drives while running embeded?
i'm trying to view the same drive that DsL is embeded on.
drive i'm trying to access:
D:
secondary (master?)

Posted by desnotes on May 13 2006,03:17

In the embedded DSL you have two virtual drives:

-hda KNOPPIX/knoppix
-hdb qemu/harddisk

-hda contains files included in the distro. To access you can go into terminal and type ls /dev/hda and you will get a listing of the drive.

-hdb is a 60 MB virtual drive that is empty and is used to save data, add applications, etc. When you d/l a .dsl to hdb and then initialize it, it will save the data to this drive. To list the files in the hdb drive, type ls /dev/hdb.

Hope this helps,

desNotes

Posted by Waxy on May 16 2006,13:27

So i can't view pre-exsisting hard drives?
EG: i have to net-transfer anything i wish to access to the virtual drives?

Posted by roberts on May 16 2006,14:17

Your question is really a Qemu question and not anything under control of DSL. Qemu is a virtual machine with "sandbox" like environment and therefore native access to only its virtual environment. It has been posted many times in this thread about how to use Samba to get access outside of the sandbox to the real machine's hard drives. I also believe there are some new Qemu boot options to allow reading to "outside the sandbox".

Posted by pr0f3550r on May 16 2006,18:01

You could access a physical hard drive in Qemu if the host was Linux, but on Windows it's very buggy and not recommended (well, I wouldn't recommend it).

By the way, having played a lot with Qemu and having appreciated the native networking capabilities, I must say it runs best on a Linux host.

Posted by Waxy on May 17 2006,12:45

isn't that kinda mute? running Qemu in DSL that's running on a Linux host? LOL

Posted by desnotes on May 17 2006,13:08

Running DSL on Qemu on a Linux distro without X running is quite fast and is a great way to allow multiple users on a school, library, internet cafe, etc computer with their own personal desktop but with access to a network.

desNotes

Posted by torp on May 17 2006,13:23

i'm a Qemu dummy....but could you run winblows under Qemu using a linux host? i mean if you HAVE to have winblows maybe that would answer.

torp

Posted by Waxy on May 17 2006,14:38

I'm looking to try and figure out how to increase the size of my ramdrive but i can't find it in the wiki.

i need to add 9.7MB of space to the ram drive.

then i can simply juggle some downloads enough to get what i want done... and hope it works. LOL.

Posted by pr0f3550r on May 17 2006,15:01

Waxy,

you do that with the -m option. Example

qemu -m 150 [...etc...]

Posted by desnotes on May 17 2006,15:52

It is possible to run Winblows in Qemu with a Linux host. That said, the process includes installing and configuring Winblows to a virtual drive. I have never done it...sounds like a really hassle to me.

desNotes

Posted by Waxy on May 18 2006,14:10

sometimes the best reason to try something is because it would be difficult.

(eg: i'm trying to run a MMORPG on DSL Embeded hosted on a Win98SE machine. the outcome is that it's teaching me linux. hopefully i'll be able to eventualy get the game going. LOL)

Ok, guys, i managed to do the step i was trying to. so this thread's subject is completed. time for me to start my next one. Heh. noobs - don't we suck?

Posted by pr0f3550r on May 18 2006,18:09

desnotes,

there was an excellent article on Linux Journal. This is offtopic here but the procedure was:

- create a 6 GB virtual drive with qemu-img.exe
- mount the winblows install cd as cdrom and the virtual drive as hda
- install
- enjoy the benefits of a full closed-source OS.

Posted by Waxy on May 19 2006,12:51

6GB in ram? or on the HD?
hum.... a file treated as a file by windows but as a drive by DLS would be nice.
It would be nice if i could move my ram drive onto my hard drive for increased space.
Where do i get this qemu-img.exe?

Posted by pr0f3550r on May 19 2006,15:33

Waxy,

6GB is not in RAM but on your own drive. This was the size suggested by Linux Journal, but now we're going off topic.